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My Teen Daughter Is Hanging Out With a New Group of Girls. I’m Worried About What Inevitably Comes Next.

Should I step in?

Help! I’m Scandalized by What Two Parents Got Away With at a Big School Fundraiser. They Were Up to Absolutely No Good.

I can’t believe people in their 30s and 40s behave like this.

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He Wrote the Book on Scientology and the Origins of 9/11. His New One Might Be His Biggest Challenge Yet.

Lawrence Wright on turning to fiction to explain what he’s seen in Israel and Palestine.

In 1977, She Made an Extraordinary Leap. It’s Taken Almost Five Decades for Anyone to Catch Up.

Her life was extraordinary. She's been all but forgotten.

My Favorite Boy Band Took Over a Giant Mall. It Wasn’t What I or Anybody Had Expected.

The Jonas Brothers successfully sold nostalgia—and their own merch—at JonasCon, an event that filled the American Dream with JoBros devotees.

So What Exactly Is Going On With Student Loans?

The Trump administration’s efforts to dissolve the Department of Education have left a wave of chaos in its wake.

Trump Executive Order Says States Must Use Voting Machines That Don’t Actually Exist

They didn’t think this one through.

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