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The 12 Days of Christmas: The story behind the holiday’s most annoying carol

Editor’s note, December 25, 8 am ET: This story is being republished for the holiday season. It was originally published in 2020. It might seem...

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Tanya Pai

The eternal awkwardness of winter break

Editor’s note, December 25, 8 am ET: This story is being republished for the holiday season. It was originally published in 2024. When I was about...

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Anna North

JD Vance and the future of MAGA

After a successful 2024 election, Vice President JD Vance came into the White House ready to shake things up, support President Donald Trump at all...

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Ariana Aspuru

How to actually get kids off their phones

It was the last day of school before winter break, and Aiden and his eighth-grade classmates were playing a game of Mafia. After the first round,...

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Anna North

The 10 most read stories on Future Perfect in 2025

As Future Perfect has in past years, we’re spending this holiday season rounding up our most-read stories of 2025 — a quick way to see what landed...

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Bryan Walsh

Trump is talking about Greenland again

2025 is ending much as it began: with President Donald Trump talking about annexing Greenland.  On Sunday, Trump appointed Louisiana Gov. Jeff...

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Joshua Keating

The Supreme Court just handed Trump a rare — and very significant — loss

The same Supreme Court that ruled that President Donald Trump is allowed to use the powers of the presidency to commit crimes finally placed a...

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Ian Millhiser

The culture war is consuming the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court for much of the last several decades has been a fairly technocratic body.  The Court, to be sure, has handed down its share of...

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Ian Millhiser

7 reasons to feel actually hopeful about the clean energy transition

It’s been a rough year if you care about climate change policy in the United States. In Washington, the second Trump administration has moved...

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Paige Vega

How Wall Street helped turn poor countries into permanent debtors

Like many Americans, most countries are in a lot of debt.  Developing countries, alone, carry nearly $31 trillion worth of debt. Enough debt to...

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Sara Herschander

This town has 3 nuclear plants. Now, it wants another one.

The town of Oswego, New York, has three nuclear power plants within 10 miles — and it wants another one. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul recently...

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Nate Krieger

Will Trump pardon Epstein’s chief enabler?

Last Friday — and then again this Tuesday — the Justice Department released the Epstein files. The documents were incomplete and heavily redacted,...

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Danielle Hewitt

Can you trust your brain?

Our brains have a way of playing tricks on us — like that ringing in our ears known as tinnitus. It’s a sound in your head, created to make up for...

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Jonquilyn Hill

2025 felt like a disaster — but the numbers tell a very different story

2025 is just about in the books, and the reviews are in: It sucked. Over at the subreddit r/decadeology, you can check out a long, long thread of...

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Bryan Walsh

2025 was the year everything changed for the US and China

When the dust settles on a year that included a ceasefire in the brutal war in Gaza, persistent but ultimately fruitless efforts to end the war in...

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Joshua Keating

What makes the Great Smoky Mountains smoky?

The Great Smoky Mountains is the most visited national park in the United States. Located on the border of Tennessee and North Carolina and...

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Dolly Li

Trump’s war on windmills, briefly explained

This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news...

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Cameron Peters

Is CBS News censoring 60 Minutes?

Is CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss censoring critical coverage of the Trump administration to please the network’s billionaire backers and the...

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Andrew Prokop

What does Trump’s AI czar want?

This summer, as President Donald Trump signed a new industry-friendly “Genius Act” for cryptocurrency, he deferred to White House “AI and...

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Avishay Artsy