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Art, identity, music, and the forces that shape how we live and what we believe.

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Plus: Lizzo's flop era, fighting for women's rights to divorce, and telling the story of Cuban life.
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Plus: a week inside Thailand's most grueling fight gym, Darwin's messier Galápagos story, and one writer's AI boyfriend experiment.
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Plus: a mother and son lost to two different mountains, the synthetic opioid flooding Ohio, and David Bowie's secret life on the Labyrinth set.
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Plus: moms who smoke before parenting, Fishtank's unhinged reality TV, and the joy of autism.
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Plus: the Boeing 747's last flight to a desert boneyard, the end of humanity, and Nashville's accidental street historian.
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Plus: a family's 56-year domestic slave, men who lie about their height, and leaked files exposing a fast-growing White supremacist group.
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Plus: prediction-market traders beating Wall Street for millions, a writer who lost his marriage on a synced laptop, and Google's plans for Pine Island.
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Plus: a century of machines trying to write like humans, cutting crime with streetlights, and an Italian novelist who keeps swapping his apartment to fund travel.
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Plus: the lawyers using wrongful death suits to punish abortion helpers, a 10-time Jeopardy champ's playbook, and mahjong's $400 makeover.
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Plus: the 1876 fair that hid a country falling apart, the orangutan rescues that may be killing them, and Gen Z's 1830s twin in Paris.
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Plus: the world's richest cat, the Gawker fallout ten years on, and Colombian cartels recruiting kids on TikTok
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Plus: fake viral music, Americans living in the desert for $180, and Gen Z students who can't unsee what they've seen.
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Plus: the Indianapolis Clowns' controversial return, NYC's most violent women's shelter, and a blind woman living in a car for a decade.
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Plus: Athletes are cheating death with $160K machines, the SBC buried its abuse survivors, and China is quietly rewriting video games.
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Plus: Elizabeth Strout's 11th novel, an American tween on the edge of everything, and why Little Debbie matters.
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Plus: a dog longevity pill nears FDA approval, a Pennsylvania dairy dynasty sells its last herd, and new science on bee cognition.
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Plus: a life sentence for an unloaded-gun robbery, Shteyngart's miserable week on the world's biggest cruise ship, and the myth of Man the Hunter.
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Plus: the OceanGate disaster, how medieval art trained us to see Black bodies as dangerous, and Bob Odenkirk on comedy and parenthood.
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Plus: monopsony keeps your paycheck small, the MJ biopic's buried secrets, and the "missing scientists" panic that isn't.
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Plus: The Atlantic's verdict on America's best free restaurant bread, how Sony destroyed the Alamo Drafthouse, and fake Keytruda vials killing cancer patients in Mexico and Nepal.
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