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    “Friends” and the illusion of perfect adult friendshipsThe TV show sold us an idealized vision of these relationships. For young adults, the real thing is far harder to find.
    By Cate Young
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    The playing fieldAnti-trans bills purport to address “fairness” in sports. But sports have never been fair.
    By Jessica W. Luther
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    The Fairness IssueTogether, the pandemic and the death of George Floyd revealed to all Americans the rampant inequities and stratifications many face.
    By Vox Staff
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    The last frontier in modern romance is moneyAs dating and marriage evolve, so is the way couples are splitting finances.
    By Melinda Fakuade and Kazimir Lee
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    What we owe and are owedKiese Laymon on Black revision, repayment, and renewal.
    By Kiese Laymon
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    How can we make it right? What the world’s religions have to say about justice.From a Buddhist to a humanist, seven faith leaders weigh in on building a better world.
    By Carol Kuruvilla
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    The battle for the future of “gig” workRide-sharing companies are pushing to make a third category of “independent” worker the law of the land.
    By Sarah Jaffe
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    Why Do We Care How Smart Animals Are?Intelligence plays a role in how we treat them. Maybe it shouldn’t.
    By Sigal Samuel
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    The Wild Frontier of Animal WelfareShould humans try to protect all creatures? Should we care whether they live good lives? Some philosophers and scientists have an unorthodox answer.
    By Dylan Matthews
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    The very cute, totally disturbing tale of the American “It” dogHow the quest to own the tiniest, most Instagram-worthy and low-maintenance pup has bred a world of problems.
    By Tove K. Danovich
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    The Hog BaronHow Iowa’s largest hog producer courted power, turned farming into a numbers game, and transformed the American heartland.
    By Charlie Mitchell and Austin Frerick
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    HomecomingCOVID-19 would take thousands of older Americans in nursing homes. Desperate that his ailing father would not be among them, one writer bounded home.
    By Davy Rothbart
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    How will we remember?What a memorial for Covid-19 victims should look like, and what it would mean for our grief, according to architects and the bereaved
    By Alissa Wilkinson
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    How an unpaid bill can lead to prisonDebtors’ prison might sound arcane. But this comic explains how forms of them exist in America today.
    By Joyce Rice and Kevin Moore
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    An unholy unionWith a struggling economy and few work prospects, Bessemer, Alabama, has been called an “unlikely” place for an epic union battle with Amazon.
    By Kim Kelly Photographs by Andi Rice for Vox
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    Here’s what the “Black tax” does to so many families — including mineAs a money coach and a Black woman, I’ve seen the racial wealth disparity firsthand.
    By Lynnette Khalfani-Cox
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    The impact of inheritanceAs the boomers age, a “great wealth transfer” may be on the horizon. Will a gift from grandma save the middle class?
    By Meredith Haggerty
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    There are no easy answers on canceling student debtFrom mental health to home-buying, there are myriad ways education loans can affect lives.
    By Emily Stewart
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    The danger of the new skepticism“Question everything, right?” is the new mantra for some. But social echo chambers have propelled “healthy” skepticism into surreal terrain.
    By Eleanor Cummins
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    Performing to an empty Times SquareLife was never easy for New York’s costumed performers. What happens when the tourists disappear?
    By Emily Stewart
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    The wild and irresistibly saucy tale of the curry con manJ. Ranji Smile served Indian food and tall tales to a hungry American public. Was he the first “celebrity chef” or a crook? The truth is complicated.
    By Mayukh Sen
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    To all the clothes I’ve loved beforeReconciling the sweatpants-wearing me with the fashion-loving woman I was just a year ago is an existential crisis like no other.
    By Hilary George-Parkin
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    Such a pretty faceCulture tells us bodies like mine are impossible to love. Don’t believe it.
    By Aubrey Gordon
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    What you’re feeling is griefFor some, the tools we have been using to cope with unprecedented loss and stress are no longer working.
    By Nylah Burton
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    Poems for a new year7 poets — including Saeed Jones, Alex Dimitrov, and Patty Crane — meditate on the year we’ve had, the one ahead, and our dark, persistent past.
    By Vox Staff
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    New crystal, new you?As crystals’ soothing popularity continues, one — carnelian — attracts those in search of self-improvement and positivity. Is it too good to be true?
    By Jaya Saxena
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    Class of 2021: Mondaire Jones on his “jarring” start as a first-term lawmakerThe New York Democrat discusses the growing progressive movement in his party, and how the US Capitol riot is shaping his priorities.
    By Li Zhou
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    New and soon-to-be parents on choosing to have kids in dark times“Maybe it’s like a psychological trick to make yourself feel better, but I don’t regret it.”
    By Chris Chafin
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    The new utopiaFor a certain jet-setting sect, wide-open spaces with views, few Covid-19 cases, and the freedom to go maskless are all the rage. Who pays the price?
    By Sarah Khan
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    The convenience of American amnesiaAs a new president is ushered in, calls to move on underscore a truth: quietly abiding our ugliest elements is the American way.
    By Fabiola Cineas
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    The Highlight’s best reads of the yearThese stories have a remarkable richness — not in spite of the pandemic, but because of it.
    By Lavanya Ramanathan
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    Sesame Street, 2020, and me: A New York storyThe city I loved was shut down this year. I found comfort in the beloved TV show’s idealized version of it.
    By Anna North
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    A requiem for the Twitter presidencyHow Trump blurred the lines between politics and persona in ways that will reverberate for years.
    By Eleanor Cummins and Illustrations by Carlos Basabe for Vox
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    The pandemic is forcing women out of the paid workforce in drovesA comic on how —between child care and homeschooling — hour for hour, women’s time is becoming worth less. It could take years to recover lost ground.
    By Aubrey Hirsch
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    2020 was a time warpWas it a year, a day, or a millennium? Science offers clues to why it feels like all of the above.
    By Shannon Stirone
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    What was 2020? For me, it was video games.1,200 hours later, I regret nothing.
    By Alanna Okun
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    I was always terrified of wasting time. A cancer diagnosis made me reconsider.Faced with the possibility I’d have no future at all, I abandoned lofty goals and momentum and found something far richer.
    By Martha M. Crawford
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    On WaitingRacism takes its toll in stolen days, months, years. Tired of the time taken away from me, I decided to leave America behind.
    By Tiffanie Drayton
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    He was arrested for marijuana 17 years ago. Now it’s legal.States face an urgent call to expunge, or erase, minor pot convictions — a move even the Biden-Harris campaign has supported.
    By John Washington
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    The Please Touch Museum and children’s museums everywhere wonder: What now?The Please Touch Museum and children’s museums everywhere wonder: What now?
    By Lindsey Norward
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    Who are museums for?When the marble corridors feel like fences.
    By Lavanya Ramanathan
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    The joy and uneasiness of an empty museumWith tourists nowhere to be found, this is the eerie new reality of New York’s cultural institutions.
    By Alissa Wilkinson Photographs by Haruka Sakaguchi
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    If museums want to diversify, they’ll have to change. A lot.2020’s racial reckoning has rocketed through elite cultural institutions. Undoing old patterns means untangling nearly everything.
    By Constance Grady
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    Plight at the MuseumFacing twin American crises, four museum directors share their vision and hopes for the future.
    By Victoria L. Valentine, Constance Grady, and Jen Trolio
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    A millennial moved back in with her parents. Her mom wants her to stay forever.52 percent of US adults under 30 are now living at home, many because of Covid-19. Here’s how it’s going for one family.
    By Julie Vadnal
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    Home, bittersweet homeCan a single place — one that’s failed us in the past — squeeze in everything it takes to live a life?
    By Foster Kamer
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    The 6 types of tidy people: A comicWe’re all homebodies now. And, no, it does not spark joy.
    By Kaye Rishad
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    The new maximalismThe new maximalism
    By Rebecca Jennings
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    What “home for the holidays” means during a pandemicWhat “home for the holidays” means during a pandemic
    By Terry Nguyen
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    Kamala Harris, Jill Biden, and the national embrace of stepmothersKamala Harris, Jill Biden, and the national embrace of stepmothers
    By Eleanor Cummins
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