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The pandemic shaved nearly two years off the average American lifespan
What has Joe Manchin done for West Virginia?
The special bond between humans and orange cats
1 in 6 committed Republicans would support a violent pro-Trump coup
"What stage of capitalism is this?"
The global plutocracy, in one chart
Cops still take more stuff from people than burglars do
What happened on Wisconsin highways after wolves returned
Why there's $50 million for doulas in Build Back Better
Economics has a rich dude problem
Why conservatives don't like cats
Ugh fine let's talk about milk
How rom-com plots have changed over the past four decades
The press is bombarding you with pseudoscience
Americans increasingly want bigger houses in less-walkable communities
Man, Squid Game is freaking huge
What a survival show can teach us about the role of luck in daily life
Covid restrictions crushed the flu
Biden administration defends killing of 8 wolf pups in Idaho
The GOP has lost touch with reality
An epidemic of police violence
A Nobel prize-winning prediction
Chart of the week: "Deficit attention disorder"
Playing ball with insurrectionists
Public trust in the courts is too high
Chart of the week: Chunky trucks
We are entering a new era of political violence
Minnesota police want drivers to carry a special pouch so they don't get shot during traffic stops
One chart that explains the GOP's embrace of authoritarianism
What people mean when they say "tax the rich"
New data on the epidemic of despair
Most Americans support vaccine mandates
Nobody was really "waiting for FDA approval," as it turns out
How to squander a medical miracle
Wolf hunters driven by bloodlust, not conservation
GOP Covid policy is killing GOP voters
Map: Every waterfall in the lower 48
Inequality rising in the Paw Patrol universe
An incomplete tally of fatal vaccine hesitancy
Almost half of Republicans prepared to "take the law into their own hands"
Why conservatives are losing their minds over Simone Biles
Cats incredibly lazy, scientists find
We don't have to choose between Earth and space
NYT gives 'water witches' the both-sides treatment
What the Biden stimulus *really* has to do with used car prices
#NameThatData: This line goes up
Airline passenger unruliness is up 400% this year
Two-thirds of Southern Republicans want to secede
Fitbit data traces Covid's assault on the body
The triumphant return of #NameThatData
Covid and impotence: the evidence firms up
Vaxxed, vibing, and totally thriving
Giving a damn, and getting vaccinated
The public shaming of Sha'Carri Richardson
Trump's pandemic failures shaved years off our lives, study finds