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What’s the deal with fictional influencers?

One tech company has created a slate of scripted influencers, each with their own storylines. But how is anyone supposed…

3 years ago

One Good Thing: A YouTube decluttering channel that made my sister and me quit screaming

If you need a nudge to clean your home, this YouTube channel can help. | Getty ImagesKay Patterson, the mind…

3 years ago

Texas’s anti-abortion law is back at SCOTUS. Here’s what’s different this time around.

Women’s groups organized marches across the country to protest SB 8, a Texas law banning most abortions. | Yana Paskova/Getty…

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The author whose story inspired Netflix’s Maid on why welfare is broken

Margaret Qualley as Alex in Netflix’s Maid, based on the memoir of the same title by Stephanie Land. | Ricardo…

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In Lauren Groff’s Matrix, medieval nuns build a feminist utopia

Nuns attend Pope Francis’s mass with the Council of Bishops’ Conferences of Europe at St. Peter’s Basilica on September 23,…

3 years ago

The case against means testing

Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) board an elevator after a private meeting between the two of them…

3 years ago

The $5 trillion insurance industry faces a reckoning. Blame climate change.

Darlene and Grant Dupre sit where their house used to be in Pointe-Aux-Chenes, Louisiana, after Hurricane Ida made landfall this…

3 years ago

The Last Duel is a medieval epic about believing women, and it’s a mess

Matt Damon in The Last Duel. | 20th Century StudiosMatt Damon and Ben Affleck’s new collaboration with Ridley Scott misses…

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A last will and testament can be a huge fight for families

What will happen to your house after you die? An estate lawyer can make a plan. | Getty ImagesOr a…

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Lebanon’s electricity was down for a day, but the crisis was years in the making

A tangle of raised power lines runs along a street in a suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on June 23, 2021.…

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