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Phones can be addictive. Sports betting, too. Now we’re combining them.

Isn’t anyone worried about the rise of gambling apps?

Doctors learned how to save premature infants’ lives. They forgot about pain.

Scientists are investigating how to treat pain in babies who can’t tell you when it hurts.

Why the US scrapped Polish plans to give Ukraine fighter jets

NATO countries are weighing military assistance to Ukraine carefully.

“The alarmists were right all along”: A Moscow journalist on Putin and the new Russian reality

An independent journalist describes what life is like inside Russia’s parallel universe.

She was the Agatha Christie of romance novels. You’ve probably never heard of her.

When will Hollywood discover Georgette Heyer?

The best $4.99 I ever spent: A six-pack after my father’s funeral

My mother and I bridged the holes in our heart together with cold beers.

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The BBC is bringing back shortwave radio broadcasts to counter censorship and disinformation in Russia and Ukraine. Professor D.W. Stupples explains.

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Russia continues its online censorship spree by blocking Instagram

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What’s in Congress’s $1.5 trillion appropriations bill

Inheriting bitcoin is harder than it sounds

Can Russian oligarchs influence Putin’s war?

Congress wants to economically isolate Russia even more

Why even a “limited” no-fly zone is a bad idea

Nice raise. Too bad about inflation. 

How to keep money from tearing your friendships apart

Why it costs money to get your own money

How high can gas prices go?

The toll Russia’s war is taking on Ukrainian civilians, in photos

Why some crypto fans are praising Joe Biden

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Why it’s so hard to move in America

The cultural cost of high housing prices

The bizarre deep-sea creatures living on the Endurance shipwreck

We have the best view yet of Covid-19’s origins. What should we do about it?

California wants to use electric cars to back up the power grid

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy, explained in 8 moments

The unprecedented American sanctions on Russia, explained

How the left is reckoning with Russia’s war

It took a war for Big Tech to take a side

What science still doesn’t know about the five senses

Morality in art, as considered by a fictional 50-something martini-drinking hostage taker

The video essay boom

Most animal cruelty is legal on the farm. A judge is questioning that.

The troubling link between electric cars and ... flamingos?

Yup, the Russian oil ban means gas prices are going to suck

The nerdiest article you’ll read about the baseball lockout

The needlessly complicated Supreme Court fight over whether Navy SEALs have to obey orders

A day in the digital life of an internet it-girl

Why some Republicans are turning against the death penalty

Why voting rights activists aren’t giving up

A grand Supreme Court showdown over gerrymandering ends in a whimper

You can now order more free Covid-19 rapid tests from Biden’s program