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October 14, 2021I Am Worried That My Fifth-Grade Research Report on Abraham Lincoln Will Have No Lasting Impact
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September 16, 2021The Founders Would Like to Remind You They’ve Been Dead for Nearly Two Hundred Years
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August 13, 2021Variations of the “Marco Polo” Pool Game Based on Other Explorers
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April 1, 2021Six Hundred Years of History Explained by April Fools’ Day
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July 14, 2020Mom Hair Through the Ages
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July 2, 2020Kink-Shaming and a Cover-Up: Benjamin Franklin and the Story of the US Standard Measurement System
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June 24, 2020Interviews with People Who Have Interesting or Unusual Jobs: Will Quam: A Brick is More Than Just a Rectangle
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June 12, 2020The New Republic Names Its Military Bases
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April 28, 2020I Went Back In Time to Stop All This, But I Ended Up Giving It to Everyone Way Earlier, and Now It’s a Lot Worse
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February 19, 2020The Great American Bison: A History of Death and Resilience
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July 15, 2024I Can’t Believe Such a Hateful, Violent Act Could Happen in the Hateful, Violent Era I’ve Created
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July 12, 2024Schedule of Speakers for the 2024 Republican National Convention
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July 16, 2024Hillbilly Elegy Edited for J. D. Vance’s Vice Presidential Campaign
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May 10, 2024What Your Favorite ’90s Band Says About the Kind of Bored Suburban Mom You Are Today
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July 26, 2024I’m a Childless Cat Lady, and If Trump and Vance Win I’m Going to Start a Sexual Relationship with My Couch
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July 26, 2024Skills You Need as President of the United States or Skills You Need as a Stepmom?
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July 26, 2024If They’d Told Me We Were Poor, I Wouldn’t Have Tolerated the Cynics
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July 26, 2024We Went Ahead and Made an AI Olympian