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Bill and Melinda Gates are America’s foremost philanthropists. Michele Crowe/CBS/Getty Images A divorce is typically a private matter that affects a family, with little consequence for the public at large. But the split between Bill and Melinda Gates could have far-reaching consequences for global health and America...

Former President Donald Trump’s new online presence is live, and it’s a blog. Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg/Getty Images Former US President Donald Trump has a new way to communicate with his supporters — but it looks more like a basic website than like the social media platforms he’s been indefinitely banned from sinc...

Supporters of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) celebrate victory in the 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly Election. Avishek Das/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images For the past few years, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a far-right Hindu nationalist faction, have dominated ...

Getty Images/iStockphoto Carbon dioxide gets the fame and attention, out of the greenhouse gases. But there are others that are even more effective at trapping heat; they just exist in much smaller concentrations, so they don’t usually face the same level of scrutiny or regulation. The United States is finally takin...

Noelle listed her house on a Thursday last August and accepted one of several offers above her asking price the following Tuesday. The 36-year-old auction house employee wanted to capitalize on the red-hot real estate market to sell her family’s home of 10 years in order to make enough money to buy her dream house. ...

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testifying remotely at a congressional hearing in October 2020. Greg Nash/AFP/Getty Images Twitter has been a free service for its users ever since it launched in 2006. Now it’s getting more serious about getting you to pay up, via an optional subscription service it’s building. Here’s the mo...

Hey bestie! Do you keep logging onto the internet and seeing people calling each other “bestie” and “girlie” and “girlboss” and “queen,” and you sort of get the sense that these words are on some level being used ironically but also you aren’t totally sure what the joke is? Each week we’ll send you the very best fro...

Jorge and Anfisa, from the fourth season of 90 Day Fiancé. TLC When you stop to think about it, reality TV and documentaries are cousins, if not siblings. The family resemblance may seem unlikely, but it’s there. Both documentaries and reality shows use the raw material of “real life,” then selectively edit and craf...

Bill and Melinda Gates’ divorce will be closely watched, with possibly huge implications. Getty Images for Global Citizen Bill and Melinda Gates, the leaders of the world’s most venerated and powerful philanthropy, said on Monday that they were getting a divorce — an earthquake moment in the nonprofit sector. The bi...

A participant holds an End Police Brutality sign at a protest in August 2020. Erik McGregor/LightRocket/Getty Images A majority of American voters think the need for police reform is even more urgent in the wake of former police officer Derek Chauvin’s conviction for the murder of George Floyd, according to a new Vo...

Kate Winslet in Mare of Easttown. HBO “So Kate Winslet is a mayor?” That’s one of the questions I occasionally get asked these days. It’s my fault. I mumble sometimes, which means I really need to enunciate when raving about Kate Winslet in the seven-episode HBO miniseries Mare of Easttown — one of my favorite new T...

Sen. Jeff Merkley, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar outside the Capitol on March 17, 2021. Getty Images Back in March, the New Yorker’s Jane Mayer obtained a recording of an adviser to Mitch McConnell privately bemoaning, on a call with conservative group leaders, that Democrats’ big voti...

People ride bicycles in Times Square in New York City during the pandemic on May 7, 2020. Noam Galai/Getty Images As America’s Covid-19 vaccine rollout got underway last December, White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci said the herd immunity threshold for the coronavirus could be 80 to 90 percent. The implication...

Contrary to what the memes might have you think, the driver of the truck in the above picture is not a billionaire. Peter Gercke/picture alliance/Getty Images For some people, the journey into America’s lumber crunch starts with the decision to build a new home, or at Home Depot, where the pandemic-driven home renov...

I’ve learned more about how to think and reason well from Julia Galef than from almost anyone. Galef, a writer, researcher, and podcaster, is obsessive about improving her own reasoning processes and helping other people improve theirs. For years, she led a group offering seminars and workshops for people to improve...

US President Joe Biden addresses a joint session of Congress in the House chamber of the US Capitol April 28, 2021. In the speech, he highlighted the need for increased investment in research and design and cast China as a key geopolitical adversary. Melina Mara/Getty Images In his address to the joint session of Co...

How much kissing will happen this summer? Annette Riedl/picture alliance via Getty Images “I’m excited to go a bit buck wild and feel so much safer,” says Elena, a recently vaccinated college student. “Just go on a lot of dates, make out with some guys, nothing serious.” The 20-year-old Salt Lake City resident, who ...

America has an opportunity to learn from its mistakes during the Covid-19 pandemic — but it is already in danger of missing its chance. Despite more than 575,000 dead Americans, there is no 9/11 Commission-style governmental inquiry into the mistakes and missteps that doomed the country’s early response to the virus...