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Double amputee PFC Josh Stein at a rehab center

The Things We Carried Home

We veterans survived the post-9/11 wars through dumb luck. Surviving the aftermath was another story.

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Sarah Paulson as Linda Tripp with Beanie Feldstein as Monica Lewinsky “Impeachment: American Crime Story” on FX

Impeachment: American Crime Story Has an Unlikely Main Character

Rather than focus on Bill Clinton or Monica Lewinsky, the show makes Linda Tripp the key to understanding the tangled and toxic politics of the late 1990s.

A close-up of MSNBC host Rachel Maddow.

How Is the Media Still Screwing Up Covid Stories?

A dubiously sourced account that confirmed many liberals’ assumptions about rural Americans taking horse medicine was too good to check.