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Inside the Very Expensive, Extremely Overwhelming, Engineered Fun of Theme Parks

Roller coasters are bumping against the limits of physics and the human body to keep their riders entertained.

Inside the Deadly Game of Drone Warfare

From the front lines in Kherson, with one of Ukraine’s most lethal units

The Invention of Judd Apatow

How a kid from Long Island willed his way to the top of American comedy

The Emmys Speech That Captured the Hollywood Slog

One of the night’s most unexpected winners made a case for sticking with it.

In the Beginning, There Was the Word

A poem

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