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The Big Story

How K-Pop Stans Set the Stage for the US TikTok Ban

By Emily Baker-White
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Tech Billionaires Already Captured the White House. They Still Want to Be Kings

By Vittoria Elliott
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The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers

By Zoë Schiffer, Leah Feiger, Vittoria Elliott, Makena Kelly, Kate Knibbs, David Gilbert, Molly Taft, Aarian Marshall, Paresh Dave, and Jake Lahut
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She Fought the Far Right Online for Years. Now She Wants to Do It in Congress

By Kate Knibbs
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I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong

By Steven Levy
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Elon Musk Is Out to Rule Space. Can Anyone Stop Him?

By Noah Shachtman
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One Vigilante, 22 Cell Tower Fires, and a World of Conspiracies

By Brendan I. Koerner
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A Vigil for Charlie Kirk

By Jasper Craven and Sinna Nasseri
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The Superyacht, the Billionaire, and a Wildly Improbable Disaster at Sea

By Bradley Hope
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The Baby Died. Whose Fault Is It?

By Emi Nietfeld
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Why Did a $10 Billion Startup Let Me Vibe-Code for Them—and Why Did I Love It?

By Lauren Goode
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AI Isn’t Coming for Hollywood. It's Already Arrived

By Zoë Schiffer
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Lisa Su Runs AMD—and Is Out for Nvidia’s Blood

By Lauren Goode
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Psychedelic Therapy Crashed and Burned. MAHA Might Bring It Back

By John Semley
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Bryan Johnson Is Going to Die

By Katie Drummond
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There's Neuralink—and There's the Mind-Reading Company That Might Surpass It

By Emily Mullin
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The Next Thing You Smell Could Ruin Your Life

By Lexi Pandell
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Where Are All the AI Drugs?

By Veronique Greenwood
The Big Story

The Enshittification of American Power

By Henry Farrell and Abraham L. Newman
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Cloning Came to Polo. Then Things Got Truly Uncivilized

By Matt Reynolds
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My Couples Retreat With 3 AI Chatbots and the Humans Who Love Them

By Sam Apple
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The Definitive, Insane, Swimsuit-Bursting Story of the Steroid Olympics

By Amit Katwala
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How Steve Jobs Wrote the Greatest Commencement Speech Ever

By Steven Levy
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The Blind Leading the Gamers

By Dexter Thomas
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