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    The Next Drug Epidemic Is Blue Raspberry FlavoredHow Galaxy Gas became synonymous with the country’s burgeoning addiction to gas.
    By Ezra Marcus
  2. noticing
    Tired of Trying to Be Interesting? Join the Dull Club.Dullness is for these members a bland blanket, a respite from an increasingly oversaturated, overprogrammed, over-whatevered world.
    By Katy Schneider
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    The Rise of the Climate Anti-HeroSoup on a van Gogh may be more strategic than it seems.
    By Elizabeth Weil
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    The Election Is Almost Here. Time for Canada?A cottage industry of expatriation consultants has emerged in time for 2024 anxiety.
    By Esme Benjamin
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    ‘A Different Kind of Ivy’Dartmouth’s new president took over last year with fresh ideas about higher education. October 7 put them, and her, to the test.
    By Alexander Nazaryan
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    The Return of Ta-Nehisi CoatesA decade after “The Case for Reparations,” he is ready to take on Israel, Palestine, and the American media.
    By Ryu Spaeth
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    How the Family of Birds in My Yard Became Internet StarsWho knew there was so much drama in nesting season?
    By David Pogue
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    The Bitter Feud at the Heart of the Paleontology WorldIt took ten days for two researchers to turn on each other, each claiming to have found new evidence of when the asteroid hit Earth.
    By Kerry Howley
  9. health
    How to Navigate Health Insurance Claims and Beat the SystemInsurance companies are in the business of saying “no.” How four very persistent patients got their money.
    By Kristen Mascia
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    Behold the $150,000 DogPart cuddly. Part vicious. All status symbol.
    By Ben Ryder Howe
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    Police Confront Pro-Palestinian Protesters At CCNY
    Why Universities Have Started Arresting Student ProtestersAfter taking a tolerant approach for decades, the recent pivot has been dramatic.
    By Christopher Sprigman
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    How Gmail Became Our DiaryRebecca Makkai, Paul Murray, and other authors dig through their email archives on the 20th anniversary of Google’s other flagship product.
    By The Editors
  13. daddy issues
    Why Is Elon Musk Dragging His 3-Year-Old Around the World?His son X has become both prop and ‘emotional support human.’
    By Irin Carmon
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    What Led a New York Midwife to Fake 12,499 Vaccine Records?And what, exactly, did parents know?
    By James D. Walsh
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    Inside the Craziest College-Admissions Season EverMore applicants, new rules, and even less clarity from schools.
    By Jeffrey Selingo
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    Rochester’s 3 Minutes of Astronomical ImportanceHalf a million eclipse hunters are set to invade.
    By Lane Brown
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    What If Ozempic Is Just a Good Thing?The media has made the drugs about body politics and our obsession with thinness. They’re telling the wrong story.
    By Rachael Bedard
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    How We Lost Our Minds About UFOsNo, aliens haven’t visited the Earth. Why are so many smart people insisting otherwise?
    By Nicholson Baker
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    Inventing the Perfect College ApplicantFor $120,000 a year, Christopher Rim promises to turn any student into Ivy bait.
    By Caitlin Moscatello
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    How Trauma Became America’s Favorite DiagnosisPsychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk’s once controversial theory of trauma became the dominant way we make sense of our lives.
    By Danielle Carr
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    America’s Population Could Use a BoomFailing to reverse the country’s population decline may exact a heavy toll.
    By Jeff Wise
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    Do You Have a Right Not to Be Lied To?Freedom of speech is being reconsidered by a group of legal scholars, who argue it is not absolute and may be outdated in a world of disinformation.
    By Jeff Wise
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    My Week With America’s Smartest* PeopleThe strange but affirming experience that is Mensa’s Annual Gathering.
    By Eve Peyser
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    The Uncomfortable New Lessons of the Sandy Hook Elementary MassacreIt might be more about video games and parenting than we first assumed.
    By Lisa Miller