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Passengers both masked and unmasked board a Green Line train.

Unmerry-Go-Round

Melody Schreiber

How Rapid Reinfection Has Changed the Covid Fight

New variants can infect people who had Covid-19 as recently as a few months ago.

New York’s Redistricting Has Caused a “Train Wreck of Democrats’ Own Creation”

Michael Tomasky

American Conservatism Just Threw a Party for Hungarian Fascism

Elif Batuman’s Experiment With Eventfulness

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Elon Musk purses his lips and spreads his hands while wearing white tie.

Elon Musk Is the Newest Acolyte of the Right’s Critical Energy Theory Nonsense

Musk’s rant about ESG aligns with a growing conservative movement to denounce sustainable investment as a left-wing plot.

Protest signs line the barricade around the U.S. Supreme Court.

Abolishing Birth Control and Gay Marriage Is on the Table

With the Supreme Court poised to overturn Roe, and conservatives plotting a sexual counterrevolution, there’s no telling what rights might get abolished next.