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GRIN AND BEAR IT

Why haven't we figured out how to make IUDs less excruciating?

The Mother Trap

Kerry King never hurt her children. Why is she in prison for more time than the man who abused her daughter?

THE ANTI-ABORTION ARCHITECT

The man behind the Texas abortion ban now has an even more radical plan to reshape American law.

MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE

If abortion is illegal, will every pregnancy lost be a potential crime?

Florida Man: Bananas Republican

How Alfie Oakes made himself a MAGA magnate

A White Author Fails Her Black Characters

Geraldine Brooks has sympathy for her protagonists. That’s not enough.

A Mad Hunt for Civil War Treasure

Did the FBI steal the gold of dents run?

Jared Polis Wants To Leave You Alone

The Democratic Colorado governor on pandemics, parenting, and partisanship

Surveillance Through the Centuries

A MERICA'S FIRST WIRETAPPING conviction happened in 1864.

THE METAVERSE IS ALREADY HERE

HOW IS VIRTUAL REALITY REMAKING OUR WORLD?

OBAMACARE AND SCOTUS, 10 YEARS LATER

THE PATIENT PROTECTION and Affordable Care Act of 2010, better known as Obamacare, was designed to patch the insurance gaps between Medicare, Medicaid, and employer-sponsored health care, which is bolstered by a tax carve-out for workplace benefits.

Gay History in the City of Secrets

DURING J. EDGAR Hoover's 48 years as FBI director, people often gossiped about whether his bedroom tastes were as straight as his agents' marksmanship, citing everything from his fondness for socializing in male groups to his close relationship with longtime deputy Clyde Tolson.

Zap Comix Were Never for Kids!

Disreputable and censored COMIX improbably brought the art form from the gutter to the museums.

MOTHER TONGUE

How the scientific label has masked political choices

No Quick Fix

Two national companies took over the motorized wheelchair industry. Disabled customers have been paying the price.

Mobilizing Homes

How a group of Coloradans fought like hell to wrest their "poor people's paradise" from the grip of a PE-backed firm

Pipe Dreams

How to cash in on federal climate tax credits...by shuttling ethanol emissions across five states.

ONCE UPON A PLANET

Can hopeful books help kids tame their climate anxiety?

THE COPPER RUSH

Will the green economy wreck sacred Native lands?

TINY'S HOUSE

An Oakland crew of "poverty scholars" spins a minor revolution in the war on homelessness

A Few Good Men

Valley Forge Military Academy bills itself as a school that breaks down young cadets and builds them back better. It succeeds at one of those things.

Capitol Gains

Private equity's favorite tax break is one of Washington's favorite punching bags. So why can't anyone get rid of it?

The Smash-and-Grab Economy

Private equity billionaires are looting the country, leaving everyday Americans to clean up the mess-and fight for the scraps.

Fox News Does Late Night

Greg Gutfeld has owned the libs all the way to the top of the ratings

The Defiant Strangeness of Werner Herzog

The director brings his signature theme adventurers who share his quixotic compulsions—to his debut novel.

‘Division of the World Is Inevitable'

Countries need to choose whether to align with autocrats or democracies, says a former NATO Secretary-General

Bans Off Our Bodies

MoveOn and Abortion Access activists rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court on May 3 after the leak of a draft opinion overturning the Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision.

Abortion Funds Are a Lifeline. And a Target.

The right's attacks on grassroots groups have already begun.

Amazon Workers in NYC Reject Union in a Reversal of Fortune

Amazon workers at a warehouse on Staten Island overwhelmingly rejected a union bid on Monday, dealing a blow to organizers who last month pulled offthe first successful U.S. organizing effort in the retail giant’s history.

Waiting on mRNA Shots

Beijing refuses to allow Western vaccines even as the development of Chinese ones lags