JANUARY
How does this end?
Remote work’s transformation of America might just be beginning
The GOP’s masculinity panic
To catch an insurrectionist
Rapid test, omicron, and you
Democrats are being forced to choose a side on filibuster reform
Why one of the most vaccinated places in America couldn’t avoid omicron
The debate about how climate activism needs to evolve, explained
Joe Biden can’t save voting rights with a speech
The lesson America refuses to learn about Covid-19 and the economy
What are you really paying for Amazon?
The most consistently botched part of the US pandemic response
The Supreme Court can’t get its story straight on vaccines
The Lesson America refuses to learn about Covid-19 and the economy
Could a 54-year-old civil rights law be revived?
Covid and the flu will make every winter hell for the US health system
Could a universal Covid-19 vaccine defeat every variant?
The voting rights push in Congress is over. The fight for democracy isn’t
Big Food is ready to sell you more plant-based meat
Can Russia back down in Ukraine?
Biden promised a harder line on Saudi Arabia. Why can’t he deliver?
Peloton’s big whoops
How trauma became the word of the decade
Retiring Justice Stephen Breyer’s nearly 28 years on the Supreme Court, explained
Joe Manchin sank Biden’s agenda. Democrats are lucky to have him.
Parasites that thrive in a warming planet are killing Minnesota’s moose
Why Tucker Carlson’s special on Hungary and Soros matters
The Supreme Court is leading a Christian conservative revolution
Why good messaging won’t save Democrats
FEBRUARY
Remote work isn’t the problem. Work is.
Dirty energy pays more than clean energy. That’s a problem.
It’s harder than ever to get fired or laid off
When celebrity nudes were everywhere
The wild finish to the Olympic women’s figure skating final
APRIL
No, Putin is not actually achieving his goals in Ukraine
Republican judges are waging a bizarre war against the First Amendment right to protest
Can executive actions save Democrats in the midterms?
What Chinese media is saying about Russia’s Ukraine war
Elizabeth Warren’s plan to break up Big Everything
What immunocompromised people need to know right now
The paradox of Ketanji Brown Jackson
How to future-proof your life from pandemics and other threats
When Russian troops arrived, their relatives disappeared
What the media needs to get right in the next pandemic
Where will abortion still be legal after Roe v. Wade is overruled?
Stop calling them “accidents”
Old-school homophobia is back
A new Supreme Court case makes George W. Bush look like a racial justice crusader
There are good reasons why Elon wants Twitter
How war in Ukraine is making people in the Middle East
How China’s Zero Covid policy is failing Shanghai
What if the future of work is exactly the same?
Clean energy is buried at the bottom of abandoned oil wells
Welcome to the choose-your-own-adventure phase of the pandemic
Why China can’t quit zero Covid
Russia’s offensive in the Donbas can’t make up for its failure in Kyiv
Ron DeSantis’s attack on Disney obviously violates the First Amendment
Michael Lewis on why Americans don’t trust experts
The faulty foundation of our new post-pandemic normal
The Supreme Court seems fed up with a Trump judge who sabotaged Biden
Title 42, the Trump-era border policy dividing Democrats, explained
Where forests disappeared last year, in one chart
Trump waded into the Ohio GOP Senate primary. But it’s not all about him.
The Great Resignation is becoming a “great midlife crisis”
MAY
Can Sri Lanka dig itself out of a $50 billion debt?
A nurse made a fatal error. Why was she charged with a crime?
What happens next if the Supreme Court strikes down Roe
Democrats are planning to make the Senate ground zero in the fight over Roe
Abortion has been treated as a frince issue by Democrats for decades. This is the result.
If Roe v. Wade falls, are LGBTQ rights next?
The abortion provider that Republicans are struggling to stop
Biden’s 3 choices on student loans
The stock market’s panicking, but you don’t have to
The extraordinary heat wave in India and Pakistan, explained
The new Russian offensive in Ukraine isn’t going much better than the previous one
John Fetterman is redefining how swing-state Democrats campaign
Carrick Flynn may be 2022’s unlikeliest candidate. Here’s why he’s running.
Why Sri Lanka’s new PM isn’t the change the country needs
Crypto believers insist this is all worth it. Is it?
The staggering amount of US military aid to Ukraine, explained in one chart
2 winners and 2 losers from the Pennsylvania and North Carolina primaries
The European country where “replacement theory” reigns supreme
“A lot of unnecessary life”: The White House’s dire warning on Covid-19 funding
Is the center shrinking in the Democratic primaries?
Why Trump is struggling to take down Georgia’s Brian Kemp
An oil industry consultant explains why she’s had enough
Why Biden’s off-the-cuff comment about defending Taiwan matters
A child can’t be a “good guy with a gun”
America’s unique, enduring gun problem, explained
Mass shootings typically lead to looser gun laws, not stronger ones
Are active shooter drills worth it?
Days after school shooting, Republicans defund gun rights at NRA convention
15 unmissable movies from this year’s Cannes
A study gave cash and therapy to men at risk of criminal behavior. 10 years later, the results are in
JUNE
How to prevent another white supremacist massacre
Johnny Depp’s legal victory makes it clear the Me Too backlash has arrived
100 days in, Russia’s war is now a brutal offensive in eastern Ukraine
New York’s attorney general calls out Verizon for spreading Legionnaires’ disease
What does the Second Amendment mean in 2022?
When hospitals value nurses as much as jello
The sexual abuse scandal rocking the Souther Baptist Convention, explained
The January 6 committee’s biggest task is getting people to care
Climate change is all about power. You have more than you think.
How Democrats plan to win big in Georgia again
Can blaming corporate greed save Democrats on inflation
“We’re expected to be human shields”: Teachers are unprotected – and scared
Can blaming corporate greed save Democrats on inflation?
The scandal embroiling Washington’s most venerable think tank, explained
Juneteenth merch is American consumerism at its most crass
Why have politicians stopped talking about Covid?
Juneteenth isn’t just a celebration of freedom. It’s a monument to America’s failures.
3 Black women couldn’t find a place their families felt safe. So they bought a town.
The land of the free leads the world in incarceration. Why?
Why grain can’t get out of Ukraine
The SEC did a sensible thing on climate change. A right-wing campaign is trying to kill it.
Shoudl you keep abortion pills at home, just in case?
The Supreme Court’s new gun ruling means virtually no gun regulation is safe
Read: The Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade
Republicans are eyeing a nationwide abortion ban. Can they pull it off?
What happens when the public loses faith in the Supreme Court?
The coming legal batles of post-Roe America
Think polarization is bad now? Wait till the post-Roe abortion wars get started
2 winners and 3 losers from the Colorado, Illinois, and New York primaries
The Supreme Court’s big EPA decision is a massive power grab by the justices
JULY
Under Obamacare, birth control pills are free. Why aren’t vasectomies?
How Dobbs is affecting abortion care, one week on
A pregnancy turns deadly in an anti-abortion state. What happens next?
Buffalo, seven weeks after the massacre
The man giving the California GOP its best shot at statewide office in years
Boris Johnson resigns as UK prime minister
Shinzo Abe wanted to make Japan a “normal country” – as he saw it
The post-legal Supreme Court
Why disasters are getting more severe but killing fewer people
The Trump presidency was a reality show. The January 6 hearings are the reunion special.
The inflation numbers are bad – but how bad are they?
Can Biden and Lapid reverse Israel’s anti-democratic – and anti-Democratic – turn?
Can pharmacists refuse to fill prescriptions for drugs that can be used in abortions?
Sri Lanka’s protests are just the beginning of global instability
What is Steve Bannon planning in his war room?
Costco’s inflation-proof $4.99 rotisserie chicken, explained
Europe is burning like it’s 2052
Can a same-sex marriage protection bill pass the Senate?
President Biden just tested positive for Covid-19. What happens now?
5 takeaways from the January 6 hearing
Why the WHO finally declared monkeypox a global public health emergency
Sri Lanka’s new president is already cracking down on protests
Gavin Newsom’s plan to save the Constitution by trolling the Supreme Court
Why Russia is abandoning the International Space Station
Climate fixes are all aimed at property owners. What about renters?
GDP declined again – but that might not mean we’re in a recession
Manafort book alleges Michael Cohen spied on Trump campaign
Free speech is essential for democracy. Could it also be democracy’s downfall?
AUGUST
Mad about inflation? Blame your local officials.
Zawahiri’s death and the war on terror’s end
4 winners and 1 loser from Tuesday’s primaries
The inflation prices that broke us
What Democrats’ big new bill would actually do
The Inflation Reductions Act, explained
How effective altruism went from a niche movement to a billion-dollar force
What we know, and don’t know about the FBI’s raid on Donald Trump
Inflation is finally slowing dow. Will things get cheaper?
Listen to the heartbeat of the largest animal to have ever lived
Liz Cheney’s primary is all about Donald Trump – except in Wyoming
What nuclear secrets could Trump have possibly taken?
The Espionage Act and Trump’s documents, explained
Hidden inside the Inflation Reduction Act: $20 billion to help fix our farms
Salman Rushdie and the enduring risk of political art
4 underrated parts of the Inflation Reduction Act
Silicon Valley is wrong about the future of transportation
The Never Trump wing of the GOP never had a chance
The 4 major criminal probes into Donald Trump, explained
The risks to Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia power plant, explained
There’s a bipartisan bill to codify Roe – and abortion rights groups can’t stand it
The radical political power of friendship
How do we know who’s winning in Ukraine?
Will student loan forgiveness make inflation worse?
Meet the billionaire who loves Fox News and owns a piece of CNN
NASA’s latest moon mission is the dawn of a new space age
Americans keep moving to where the water isn’t
The flooding in Pakistan is a climate catastrophe with political roots
The DOJ’s latest filing has even more damning claims against Trump
SEPTEMBER
Why Iraq could be approaching another civil war, explained by an expert
How election deniers could sway the 2024 election
Biden’s long game for American-made electric vehicles
The housing market slowdown, explained in 7 charts
New prime minister, same old battles over Brexit
Same-sex marriage protections and 4 other big items on Congress’s to-do list
Want to be happy? Don’t Follow your gut.
What if we’re fighting inflation all wrong?
DOJ warns judge that delaying the FBI’s Trump investigation is a national security risk
Queen Elizabeth II and the long 20th century
The GOP is learning just how hard it is to legislate abortion
Two dozen tech founders living in a mansion. What could go wrong?
The questions over the queen’s role in Britain’s violent empire, explained by a historian
The case for Democratic optimism – and pessimism – in the midterms
What’s at stage in the freight rail labor fight
Blowtorching spotted lanternflies is, in fact, a bad idea
Ukraine wants more weapons. But can Europe provide?
Voters don’t actually care about student loan forgiveness
How Washington came to see China as an existential threat
How 2022 became the year of the Latina Republican
Putin’s nuclear threats and war escalation, explained
Remote workers are wasting their time proving they’re actually working
How a 100-year-old miscalculation drained the Colorado River
Are the walls really closing in on Trump this time?
The 10 races that could decide Senate control
39 years ago today, one man saved us from world-ending nuclear war
The universe is a dangerous place. NASA just showed it’s possible to defend Earth against it.
Hurricane Ian is about to crash into a very crowded Florida
Hurricane Ian’s rapid intensification is a sign of the world to come
Republican states keep refusing to expand Medicaid – until you ask their voters
OCTOBER
Elon Musk’s texts offer a rare glimpse at the billionaire boys’ club
How the Brazilian election could destabilize a divided country
The Supreme Court appears determined to shrink the Clean Water Act
A GOP insider on the Republicans who knew Trump was dangerous – and went MAGA anyway
The Russian nuclear threat, explained
A wave of anti-vaccine legislation is sweeping the United States
Hurricane Ian’s exceptional death toll, explained
The most important part of Biden’s surprise marijuana announcement
The Crimea bridge explosion is a devastating blow to Putin and Russian morale
The 5 types of candidates to watch in the battle for the House
The new abortion rights spokesmen: Dudes, dads, and plumbers
What did Putin accomplish with his Ukraine barrage?
How the Pennsylvania Senate race got so close
The next frontier for climate action is the great indoors
3 events that shaped Xi Jinping’s worldview
How Vladimir Putin is thinking about the war
Is the stimulus to blame for higher inflation?
The defense Democrats aren’t using against Republicans’ soft-on-crime attacks
Democratic optimism about the midterms is fading
Liz Truss’s resignation as UK prime minister – and the precipitating economic crisis – explained
Steve Bannon was found guilty. What happens now?
Herschel Walker was the “king of Georgia” before he tried to be its senator
What the Constitution actually says about race, explained
Curtis Yarvin wants American democracy toppled. He has some prominent Republican fans.
Could an old-school approach to voting decide the midterms?
The difficult truths laid bare in the Fetterman-Oz debate
Why everybody you know is sick right now
Lindsey Graham’s surprisingly complex Supreme Court case about Trump’s Big Lie, explained
Who would make Bolsonaro president again?
What happens if Bolsonaro wins reelection in Brazil?
What aren’t we doing to fix inflation?
NOVEMBER
The end of the cold season as we know it?
The messy true story of the last time we beat inflation
The nightmarish Supreme Court case that could gut Medicaid, explained
The plan to save America by killing the partisan primary
How Democrats let blue states become GOP targets in the midterms
The state of the economy on Election Day, explained in 6 numbers
8 questions the 2022 midterms will answer
What the final pre-election polls tell us about how the midterms will turn out
Where the battle for Senate control stands after Election Day
The midterms were a resounding win for abortion rights – with one exception
Did young voters really save Democrats?
Elon Musk, master businessman, can’t make up his mind
Why Ron DeSantis’s Post-midterms glow up may fade
Maybe Trump was right about TikTok
What Trump vs. DeSantis says about the future of the American right
Why some Republicans senators are revolting against Mitch McConnell
Anti-abortion groups don’t think they lost the midterms
The midterm culture war over plant-based meat
The Federalist Society controls the federal judiciary, so why can’t they stop whining?
The many, many controversies surrounding the 2022 World Cup, explained
The incredible shrinking future of college
Will America continue to turn away from vaccines?
Hakeem Jeffries’s ascent to Democratic leader, explained
Why Americans will pay higher natural gas prices this winter
What else Qatar has built with its absurd wealth besides the 2022 World Cup
How independent voters saved Democrats
A Trump judge seized control of ICE, and the Supreme Court will decide whether to stop him
The 2024 Senate map is terrifying for Democrats. That’s one reason Georgia’s runoff matters.
There’s no such thing as a good cold
Kari Lake’s lonely and deeply absurd quest to challenge the Arizona election results
DECEMBER
The deep roots of antisemitism’s resurgence in America
The economy just doesn’t make sense anymore
The next Congress will be the most representative of Latino identity ever
World leaders have 2 weeks to agree on a plan to save nature
Why does the US keep running out of medicine?
We don’t need another Twitter
Raphael Warnock is officially Democrats’ 51st senator. Here’s why that matters.
Why Brittney Griner was released now
How Kyrsten Sinema’s decision to leave the Democratic Party will change the Senate
The weird Republican turn against corporate social responsibility
A driver killed her daughter. She won’t let the world forget
Neuralink shows what happens when you bring “move fast and break things” to animal research
A notorious Trump judge just fired the first shot against birth control
Inside the chaos at Washington’s most connected military tech startup
ChatGPT has given everyone a glimpse at AI’s astounding progress
Angry, irrational, erratic: This is Elon Musk’s Twitter
One of the best Covid-19 treatments doesn’t work anymore. What now?
Does a criminal referral from the January 6 committee mean anything?
A bad year for the bad guys
The billionaire vibe shift
Sotomayor and Kagan need to think about retiring
5 studies released in 2022 that might change how you think about health care
What we learned from the January 6 committee
In search of an attainable New Year’s resolution
9 breakthroughs this year that gave us hope for the future
The money party is over
The Trumpiest court in America
What to know about the most important elections in 2023
The best, worst, and just plain dumb of American politics in 2022
Democrats made historic gains at the state level. Can they build on them?
22 predictions we made in 2022, and the 6 we got wrong
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