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Kari Lake’s long-shot lawsuit challenging her midterms loss, explained

By Nicole Narea
A Christmas tree on a table. Why?
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How Christmas trees stopped being just a German thing

By Phil Edwards

Sam Bankman-Fried’s arrest is the culmination of an epic flameout

By Whizy Kim

Elon Musk’s future as Twitter CEO is suddenly in question

By Shirin Ghaffary

The bill to prevent Trump from stealing the next election, explained

By Andrew Prokop
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The case to rename this famous Christmas plant

By Ranjani Chakraborty

Can capitalism and nature coexist?

By Benji Jones

The irresistible voyeurism of “day in my life” videos

By Rebecca Jennings

Hulu’s Kindred solves the Handmaid’s Tale problem

By Constance Grady

When humor becomes armor

By Ashley Ray

A joke with a literal cost

By Emily Stewart

The far-right threat to liberal democracy in Europe, explained

By Cas Mudde

Sotomayor and Kagan need to think about retiring

By Ian Millhiser

Elon Musk now says he’ll step down as Twitter CEO

By Shirin Ghaffary

America’s most important EV is also its goofiest

By Umair Irfan

Why we’re relitigating the Casey Anthony case now — and why we shouldn’t

By Aja Romano

The US government’s TikTok ban is more complicated than it sounds

By Sara Morrison

Egg prices are higher than ever. Blame the record-breaking bird flu.

By Kenny Torrella

7 reasons our planet might not be doomed after all

By Benji Jones

A Pennsylvania county delayed certifying the midterms. That has scary implications for 2024.

By Nicole Narea

The billionaire vibe shift

By Whizy Kim

America’s Trumpiest court doesn’t care if your right to a fair trial was violated

By Ian Millhiser

What America’s politicians get wrong about young voters

By Christian Paz

Why do people still think women aren’t funny?

By Aubrey Hirsch

Is the right winning the comedy wars?

By Constance Grady