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Sep 18, 2025

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 By Annie Lowrey 

The tax code is becoming more chaotic and less fair.

 By Graeme Wood

Political violence is a curse for which both the left and right have, at different times, been responsible.

 By Hanna Rosin

“Woke”-teacher screenings. Trying to get Bibles in schools. A two-part series on how one state is remaking American education.

 By Jonathan Lemire

“I love Pete,” she writes in her new book. But picking a gay man would have been too risky.

 By Sophie Gilbert

Task, HBO’s new Delaware County–set crime drama, has violence, vengeance, and a point to make about men.

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