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Algorithms changed the classic card game for good — but is it for the better?
Algorithms changed the classic card game for good — but is it for the better?
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How the mysterious death of a Boston cop led to an intense trial, a media circus, and a referendum on policing.
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Americans are finally falling in love with the US version of the British reality hit. Fancy that!
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For Amazon workers, the bevy of sales reinforces the human toll of “same-day delivery, lifetime of injury.”
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The bestseller proves Trump’s VP pick has abiding disdain for absolutely everyone.
Originally marketed squarely at young men, they’re now coming for women’s wallets.
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“It’s his brand now.”
The shooting wasn’t staged, but conspiratorial thinking has become widespread in our paranoid age.
Charges of involuntary manslaughter against the actor have been dismissed, and cannot be refiled. Here’s what happened.
Netflix’s America’s Sweethearts is a convincing argument that the organization shouldn’t exist
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Our attitudes about enduring extreme heat have to evolve.
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Reckoning with the late author and Nobel Prize winner’s complicity in her daughter’s abuse.
Paris’s bold Olympic promise to clean the River Seine.
The strange ways we do (and don’t) consume glizzies.
Sonny Angels, from TikTok trend to SNL sketch fodder, explained.
As the first Asian American lead in the franchise’s two-decade history, Jenn Tran’s casting makes a statement.
A conversation with author Nathalie Etoke on Black existentialism and the case for tragic optimism.
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