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It’s Small, Brazen Acts Like This One That Will Move the Sexual Harassment Fight in the Right Direction

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Enough With the Palace Intrigue

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Four Ways We’ve Distorted the History of the Civil Rights Movement

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Business

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Oct. 16 2018 7:15 PM Trump Says The Federal Reserve Is the “Biggest Threat” to His Presidency. So Why Hasn’t He Done Anything About It? Jordan Weissmann

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It Is Absurd That Trump Is Taking Credit For Falling Obamacare Premiums

Why Donald Trump Is Saying That the Fed Has “Gone Loco”

Trump Just Showed How Republicans Will Fight Medicare for All

Amazon Created a Hiring Tool Using AI. It Immediately Started Discriminating Against Women.

Australia Has a Plan to Keep Immigrants Out of Its Largest Cities

Life

Dear Prudence

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Help! My Husband Is Embarrassed by Our Infertility.

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Hollywood’s Official Response to #MeToo Is Off to a Rocky Start

A Close Look at the Many Times We’ve Anointed “The Year of the Woman” Before

The Best, Most Searing Writing on Sexual Harassment This Year

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USA Gymnastics Paid McKayla Maroney $1.25 Million to Stay Silent About Her Alleged Sexual Abuse

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The Cambridge Analytica Mess Reveals That Even Careful Policies Can’t Protect Our Data

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Arts

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Sept. 22 2018 8:32 AM Why Is Autumn the Only Season With Two Names? Forrest Wickman

A Complete List of the Women Who Have Accused Bill Cosby of Sexual Assault

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SNL’s Steve Bannon Finally Takes off His Grim Reaper Mask and He Looks a Lot Like Bill Murray

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Mark Wahlberg Donates His All the Money in the World Reshoot Money to Time’s Up

Eliza Dushku Accuses Stunt Coordinator Joel Kramer of Sexually Assaulting Her When She Was 12

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Technology

The Industry

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By Releasing Her Genetic Information, Elizabeth Warren Is Setting a Worrying Precedent

Smartphone Critics Are Getting Way Too Worked Up Over Notches

People With Speech Disabilities Are Being Left Out of the Voice-Assistant Revolution

We’re Too Excited About MDMA’s Potential for Treating PTSD

Keeping Your Wedding Guests Off Social Media Is Basically Hopeless. Just Ask Princess Eugenie.

The Government Has New Powers to Take Down Civilian Drones. But Do They Go Too Far?

Health & Science

Science

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How Oprah Winfrey Helped Create Our Irrational, Pseudoscientific American Fantasyland

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Will Puerto Rico’s Official Death Count From Maria Ever Be Accurate?

Sports

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NFL Coaches Are Making Better Fourth-Down Decisions. They Still Have a Long Way to Go.

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The World’s Best Three-on-Three Basketball Player Is a Serbian Nicknamed Mr. Bullutproof

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