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Voting For Gaza
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Tom Scocca
April 4, 2024
Arts And Culture
Víkingur Ólafsson Plays The Familiar And Makes It His Own
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Kevin Koczwara
April 4, 2024
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MLB
How Do Coaches Coach When Players Have Their Own Guys?
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Zach Buchanan
April 3, 2024
College Basketball
UConn Is Exhaustingly, Relentlessly Great
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Charles P. Pierce
April 2, 2024
Science
Solar Eclipses: No Longer Scary, Still Astonishingly Cool
232
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Paola Rosa-Aquino
April 1, 2024
Perfectly Fine Dinner Party Club
Let’s Make Dinner For Friends, Like For A Dinner Party, But Normal
147
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Libby Watson
March 27, 2024
MLB
Peter Angelos Was The Ultimate Team Owner
188
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Tom Scocca
March 26, 2024
Defector At The Movies
In ‘Love Lies Bleeding,’ The Body Scores
65
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Soraya Roberts
March 25, 2024
Arts And Culture
Partying With The U.S. Army At South By Southwest
314
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Dan Gentile
March 25, 2024
Life Lessons
Why Can’t I Turn Off The Game?
75
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Felix Kent
March 22, 2024
College Wrestling
The Blood Round Is Where College Wrestlers With Nothing To Lose Have Something To Win
48
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Sam Eagan
March 22, 2024
Margin Of Error
Amy Coney Barrett’s Charm Offensive
226
Comments
Tom Scocca
March 21, 2024
Life Lessons
The Fork And Spoon Method To A Better Life
54
Comments
Nicholas Russell
March 21, 2024
The Fights
How Bloody Elbow Lost Its Soul
55
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Trent Reinsmith
March 21, 2024
The Fights
Small Nations In Big Wars
39
Comments
Hamilton Nolan
March 18, 2024
Arts And Culture
Of Course My Favorite TV Host Is An Asshole
221
Comments
Soraya Roberts
March 15, 2024
College Basketball
Terry Francona’s Next Act: Arizona Hoops Superfan
54
Comments
Zach Buchanan
March 15, 2024
Climate
The Yamuna River’s Treasure Divers Fight More Than Poverty To Survive
69
Comments
Meher Qadri
March 13, 2024
Games
From TED To PERNOCTATED, Scrabble’s Best Player Knows No Limits
125
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Stefan Fatsis
March 12, 2024
Defector At The Movies
Good, Bad, Or Invisible, CGI Makes Movies Unreal
118
Comments
Corey Atad
March 8, 2024
Margin Of Error
My Fellow Americans
556
Comments
Tom Scocca
March 7, 2024
Arts And Culture
‘Dune’ Novels, Ranked By Unfilmability
289
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Danny Sullivan
March 5, 2024
Interviews
“It Really Matters If Somebody Has Bad Taste”: An Interview With Book Critic Becca Rothfeld
45
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Nicholas Russell
March 4, 2024
Journalismism
Tim Burke’s Indictment Is A Political Choice Disguised As A Legal Act
371
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Jay Willis
March 1, 2024
Politics
Why Did Aaron Bushnell Burn?
567
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Casey Taylor
February 29, 2024
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