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1 There’s No Real Reason to Eat 3 Meals a Day

Your weird pandemic eating habits are probably fine.

Amanda Mull
2 The Differences Between the Vaccines Matter

Yes, all of the COVID-19 vaccines are very good. No, they’re not all the same.

Hilda Bastian
3 There’s a Better Way to Parent: Less Yelling, Less Praise

When Michaeleen Doucleff met parents from around the world, she encountered millennia-old methods of raising good kids that made American parenting seem bizarre and ineffective.

Joe Pinsker
4 No One Is Prepared for Hagfish Slime

It expands by 10,000 times in a fraction of a second, it’s 100,000 times softer than Jell-O, and it fends off sharks and Priuses alike.

Ed Yong
5 Growing My Faith in the Face of Death

I spent a lifetime counseling others before my diagnosis. Will I be able to take my own advice?

Timothy Keller
6 ‘This Is Unprecedented’: Why America’s Housing Market Has Never Been Weirder

In America’s largest, richest cities, home prices and rents are going in opposite directions.

Derek Thompson
7 In Our House, Dr. Seuss Was Contraband

My mother went to enormous lengths to protect her family from negative stereotypes of Black people.

Michael Harriot
8 TV Had Never Seen Anything Like WandaVision Before

How a strangely uncategorizable and undefinable show became the new appointment viewing

Shirley Li
9 What the Media Are Missing About Joe Manchin

The senator has skillfully managed his image, to stay viable in a state that went from a Democratic to a Republican majority.

Christopher J. Regan
10 You Got the Vaccine! What Can You Do Now?

A guide to America’s awkward, semi-vaccinated months

Rachel Gutman