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- Yemen's descent into chaos
February 27th
- Leonard Nimoy, and the many dimensions of Spock
- The surprising economics of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
- How Netflix channeled Frank Underwood to build an empire
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- The end of OPEC
- Why does Togetherness act like feminism never happened?
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- The Oscars are boring — and there's no way to save them
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- The most expensive public-works project in U.S. history
February 18th
- Russia is turning North Korea into its agent of mischief
- Too many cooks: How Europe undercut its climate goals with a mishmash of green policies
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- What is vocal fry?
February 13th
- Here's how the FBI can help black communities
- Kicking oil companies where it hurts: How to make fossil fuel divestment smarter
February 7th
- An identity crisis at McDonald's
- Does yoga belong to India?
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- American child care has a slumlord problem
February 5th
- Why the Metro-North crash should encourage more people to take the train
- Why the government should be funding mass scientific studies of Ecstasy, magic mushrooms, and LSD
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- How the Super Bowl ate America

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