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This decade has been a double-edged sword for trans people.

We were all right to hate the plastic straw ban, but we need more regulations like it.


Is the queen really trying to send a message about Brexit through her choice of brooch?


Imagine being locked out of your home because software selected by your landlord can’t identify your face.


The system could someday be used in Amazon Go or Whole Foods stores.


A political strategy that actually works.


Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has pledged to work closely with the White House on the impeachment trial. GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski is disturbed by the idea.


The Pulitzer-winning playwright’s latest, Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven, returns to his themes of grace, fear, and the possibility of redemption.

The first step is to be honest about your lifestyle.


The uninsured rate is rising, and he has nothing to say about it.


The Nobel prize-winning economist explains it all.


A simple guide to high-intensity interval training, or HIIT, the fitness trend du jour.

What does it really take to eat noodles for a living?

Proprioception is the body’s mysterious ability to locate our limbs, even in darkness. We’re just beginning to understand it.

Meet the author who predicted the upheavals of the 2010s.