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How Trump is paying TSA, briefly explained

Travelers wait in line at a TSA checkpoint at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas, on March 26, 2026. | Mark Felix/Bloomberg...

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The secret to successful conversations with strangers

It’s time to let Sid go. | duncan1890/Getty Images You may generally disregard unfamiliar faces as background characters in the movie that is...

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How ICE has changed American life

When candidate Donald Trump promised mass deportations on the 2024 campaign trail, it was hard to imagine exactly what that might turn into. ...

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Is it wrong to send your kid to private school?

Your Mileage May Vary is an advice column offering you a unique framework for thinking through your moral dilemmas. It’s based on value plura...

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The most successful health campaign in modern history

How old am I? Old enough to have flown on planes that had ashtrays in the armrests. Old enough to remember restaurants with smoking sections...

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Welcome to the April issue of The Highlight

Crafting as protest has a long history in America, dating back to before the American Revolution when colonists would boycott British textile...

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Why people are having such strong reactions to Lindy West’s new memoir

West performs onstage at the Larkin Comedy Club on June 4, 2017, in San Francisco, California. | FilmMagic/FilmMagic You might remember femin...

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The larger stakes of Trump’s redesign of Washington, DC

Workers add Donald Trump's name to the facade of the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, on December 19, 2025. | Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Imag...

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Even John Bolton is against this Iran war

How did President Donald Trump lose the Republican Party’s biggest Iran war hawk, John Bolton? And why? | Brandon Bell/Getty Images For the pa...

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The contradiction at the heart of OpenAI

OpenAI announced plans to invest substantial amounts of money in AI-related causes this year through its nonprofit, increasing its philanthropic...

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Courts are finally punishing Big Tech for harming kids. Here’s the catch.

This week, juries in California and New Mexico dealt a pair of landmark verdicts against America’s social media giants.  In Los Angeles, jur...

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The religious right is breaking up over Israel and Iran

Vice President JD Vance speaks with Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter and US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee upon his arrival at Be...