Month: June 2020

Katy Fishell, Amy Silverberg, and Madeleine Connors write a humorous description of all the things your many enemies have been doing in quarantine, including your stepmother, Mary Louise, who wants you to read more Alice Munro.

There’s a growing narrative highlighting K-pop fans’ political progressiveness. But the reality is far more complicated.

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Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones says 250 years of slavery and 100 years of legalized segregation robbed Black Americans of the ability to accumulate wealth; cash payments would help repair the damage.

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CINCINNATI—Saying the conversation with his manager had really helped him see the next steps for his time at the company, Celera Solutions employees Marcus Parker told reporters Wednesday that he had left a recent performance review with the clear, identifiable goal of surrendering to the void. “It wasn’t too long of…

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The movement to make Washington, D.C. the nation’s 51st state has continued to gain momentum and is emerging as a significant issue in an increasingly polarized country, but the proposal has many critics. The Onion looks at the pros and cons of granting D.C. statehood.

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LOS ANGELES—Insisting their department provided crucial services that help maintain order in the city, law enforcement officials warned Wednesday that defunding the police could lead to a spike in crime from ex-officers with no outlet for their violence. “The truth is that there are violent people in our society, and…

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Jonny Auping satirically imagines activities that penguins are allowed to do during the coronavirus lockdown.

Bobbie Bohnsack’s father passed away when he was eight years old. More than three decades later, he’s been reunited with an old car his father bought after coming home from Vietnam.