Misinformation and political polarization aren’t the only things keeping people from getting COVID vaccines trib.al/VgPujDV

As soon as it began, the US almost fell apart trib.al/u8FPKgQ

A journey to the vault at the end of the world trib.al/p6uPYMn

Digging a grave for our beloved, departed goldendoodle was hard. We wouldn’t have had it any other way. trib.al/wBS2hYA

Oysters, please — without a side of plastic trib.al/6vRq9Vb

Biden’s age isn’t the Democrats’ only liability trib.al/bBBLID7

A First Amendment fight for the future of the internet trib.al/o2s1gSs

Sleep training is controversial and hard, but for my family, it was also transformative. trib.al/DBozqAF

Once Joe Biden became ineffective, his insistence on staying in the race revealed ego-driven motivation. trib.al/VCjr4N5

Even today, people are confused to hear that as a grandmaster, I only know a tiny fraction of the vast totality of chess knowledge. trib.al/J3Qouur

The pathology of Joe Biden’s life has become detectable now because the competence is gone, leaving a bare desire for self-aggrandizement visible to all. trib.al/C0EhBjY

As it approaches its 250th anniversary— and as it girds for a presidential election with nothing less than American democracy at stake — the country is at a turning point. trib.al/Y1DF4Jo

Minnesota’s new law is an important step to begin holding social media companies accountable and serves as a call to action for other states. trib.al/vm4jU0K

Democrats are assumed to be in favor of immigration and expanding the vote, but a new study suggests this support is more conditional than one might assume. trib.al/Oh3Vzgf

To stop or slow the effects of climate change, humanity must reduce its carbon emissions. However, that is no longer enough: We must also pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and sequester it in the earth or the ocean. trib.al/sQvAiCf

Despite chilling parallels to 1930s and ’40s regimes, what’s actually on the rise isn’t fascism — it’s “Caesarism,” a strain of despotic leadership historians have described for more than a century. trib.al/RvQk8WD

Winning the presidential election this fall is not the same as winning the future, writes David Scharfenberg. And that’s the real challenge for a movement that has long been dogged by questions about how it can outlast its aging, highly personalistic leader. trib.al/52RdHLk

Having grown up in a household devoted to collecting and repairing things, I’ve come to understand there is a shadow side to a fix-it mentality, writes Lisa Weiss. trib.al/yNb3YAe

Ideally, American Jewish people think, Israel aligns with their values, writes John Benjamin. In theory, they assume, Zionism protects them against antisemitism, there and here. But they must break through these false assumptions. trib.al/T6snA7r

Even the CEO of Ford knows it's a problem that US automakers have gone all in on "light trucks." trib.al/b5EY8wD