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Private daycares prepare children for success but often leave their employees behind

The town of Garfield, New Jersey, was plagued by feral cats.

“In my experience, the media’s unquestioning conformity is fostered by the promise of reward—prestige, increased access, career advancement.”

Tube time: taking apart the Golden Age of TV

A German court ruled that hangovers are a disease.

A doctor filed a lawsuit against former Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown, who repeatedly farted in the doctor’s face and laughed about it, for $11,500 in unpaid fees.

The inner workings of the N.F.L. Scouting Combine and the uncertain future of the game

Out of sight on Leros, the island of the damned

A study that compared the temperatures of French postal carriers’ left and right testicles won an Ig Noble Prize, annual awards honoring research that “first makes people laugh, and then makes them think.”

Reflections on harm in language and the trouble with Whitman

Feet of clay: on the troublesome uses of archeology, past and present

A forum on the constitution; Andrew Cockburn on progressive prosecutors; Adam Wilson interrogates the Golden Age of TV; Linda Stasi on sexual abuse in the world of Orthodox Judaism

Republican congressman Steve King drank toilet water at a migrant detention facility near the Mexican border to demonstrate its safety. “Actually pretty good!” the congressman remarked.

One hundred and twenty coffins were discovered beneath a housing complex in Tampa, Florida.

Portraits by Hamell on Trial

Everywhere and nowhere: tracing the evolution of a notorious Nigerian fraternity

In Russia, doctors master a new clinical skill: listening and talking with empathy

In Connecticut, five men and one woman between the ages of 62 and 85 were charged with breach of peace and public indecency after they were caught having sex inside the Grace Richardson conservation area.

From responses, given by researchers at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to frequently asked questions submitted to the agency’s Hurricane Research Division.

A documentary about climate change, domain names, and capital

A federal judge in North Carolina ruled in favor of personal-injury lawyer George Sink Sr., who had sued his son, George Sink Jr., for using his own name at his competing law firm.

Brought into the light: Jeff Sharlet and Jesse Moss discuss the secretive, Washington-based religious organization that is the subject of a new Netflix docuseries

Rich Cohen visits the N.F.L. combine; Rachel Poser investigates Zionist archeology; Sean Williams on the Black Axe; an acid-fueled memoir by Chris Rush

The world champion of short-track speed skating was banned from the sport for a year after pantsing a teammate.

Where the barbarians are: the Hungarian right’s obsession with a false history

“Nor would I leave to Emmanuel Macron and Mark Zuckerberg, both of them politicians first and foremost, the job of regulating anything that has to do with words or language.”

The National Academy of Sciences published a study that found CEOs and CFOs who use the extramarital-affair website Ashley Madison are more than twice as likely to engage in corporate misconduct.

Range life: the not entirely romantic existence of homesteaders in the San Luis Valley

A guide to the Democratic presidential hopefuls

Boris Johnson was sworn in as prime minister; Donald Trump complained about Obama ruining the White House’s air-conditioning