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President Barack Obama interview with Ezra Klein and Sarah Kliff about Obamacare

Why American TV needs a Muslim Modern Family

Fake news wasn’t the biggest media problem of 2016

Obama on Obamacare: Vox interviews the president on January 6

South Sudan may be heading towards genocide

How I memorized an entire chapter from “Moby Dick”

2016, in 5 minutes

The US nuclear arsenal is a gigantic accident waiting to happen

Why cities should plant more trees

The chord that makes Christmas music sound so Christmassy

How one of America's least healthy counties got so sick

One helpful rule for being a Muslim on the internet – don’t read the comments

The fall of Aleppo, explained

How cars went from boxy to curvy

This Muslim journalist challenges power – from Standing Rock to Donald Trump

The US may be aiding war crimes in Yemen

How the screens inside movies build fictional worlds

How David Blaine barfs frogs

Fuel is cheap. Why are we still paying to check bags?

Tired of being bullied, this “MuslimGirl” found a way for Muslim women to talk back

The fight over the Dakota Access Pipeline, explained

Why all world maps are wrong

Why blackface is still part of Dutch holidays

How China is changing Hollywood

This Muslim American was shot after 9/11. Then he fought to save his attacker’s life

Sweet potatoes and yams: What's the difference?

How America became a superpower

The hidden war over grocery shelf space

What does it mean to be Muslim? There are 1.7 billion answers.

How repealing Obamacare could change millions of lives

How zip codes helped organize America

7 ways a trip to Mars could kill you

Muslim NYPD chaplain: saluted in uniform, harassed as a civilian

How streets, roads, and avenues are different

The hard life of India's illegal sewer cleaners

Someday: The long fight for a female president

It’s now on America’s institutions – and Republicans – to check Donald Trump

What to watch for on election night

Donald Trump's success reveals a frightening weakness in American democracy

Neo-Nazis explain why they like Donald Trump

6 ways your voting rights could be violated on Election Day

From white supremacy to Barack Obama: The history of the Democratic Party

What 33,000 pages of leaked emails teach us about Hillary Clinton

We imagined a woke male feminist president. He sounds like this.

An American-Muslim comedian on being typecast as a terrorist

Want to rig the US presidential election? Good luck.

How Donald Trump thinks about foreign policy

How a mathematician dissects a coincidence