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What No One Tells You About Parenting

When you feed a child food, that child’s body converts the food into excrement (turn your child upside down to confirm this).

By Joanna Bradley

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Welcome to My Ex-Boyfriend Orientation

Help yourself to some cinnamon buns. They’re a labor of love. But I’m used to labor—like, for example, all the emotional labor that predominantly fell on me during our courtships.

By Meghana Indurti

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The Pros and Cons of Being a Children’s Author

Pro: Writing and drawing! Con: Writing and drawing.

By Liz Montague

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Neighborly Cannibals

I asked Kayleigh if she’s ever experimented with nontraditional Lunchables, and she just rolled her eyes and said, “Geez, Mom. Get a life. Or an ear that hasn’t been treated with pesticides.”

By Paul Rudnick

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Mom: The Symposium

Topics will include the almost British accent she uses when ordering takeout and that faraway look she gets when listening to the Grateful Dead’s “Eyes of the World.”

By Sarah Schmelling

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“Oh, so now when it’s time to order lunch you’re impartial.”

Cartoon by Brendan Loper

How to Spring

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What Even Is Springtime?

It is, among other things, the time of year when we lose an hour of our lives complaining about losing an hour of sleep.

By Mia Mercado

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Things America Is Throwing Out While Spring Cleaning

That one person without a podcast. Begone!

By Scott Jacobson, Todd Levin, Jason Roeder, Mike Sacks, and Ted Travelstead

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You’ll Feel Better if You Go Outside

Maybe I would. But, then again, TV.

By Patty Terhune

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A New York Spring Forecast

The groundhog told us that it would be warm by now—and it will be! Every other minute.

By Claire Friedman

Comics

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What Sleepy Trump Dreams About at Trial

Mashed-potato nightmares! Kafka in the Oval Office! And other things going through the mind of the nap-happy ex-President in court.

By Barry Blitt

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America!: A Chaos Demon from the Underworld Shares His Tips on Streamlining Congress

I’m truly inspired by the surreal dysfunction of your Congress—but isn’t it a little over the top?

By Ali Fitzgerald

Blitt’s Kvetchbook

Up in Arms at Columbia University

Demonstrations and counter-demonstrations on campus and beyond.

By Barry Blitt

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Writers, Writers, Everywhere

The protagonist in every movie I’ve seen this month has been a struggling writer of some sort.

By Zoe Si

More Humor

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Actually, I Can’t Wait for a Trump-Biden Rematch

This time around, we’ll remember to stock the appropriate amount of Xanax, anticipating that the election will take several days to call.

By Ginny Hogan

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Other Admissions in Kristi Noem’s Book

“My greatest ambition is to keep serving this great country of ours in elected office. My second-greatest ambition is to duel the Aflac duck.”

By Emily Zauzmer

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Arrow Retriever

Arrow retrieving is a young man’s game. First your back and elbows go, from the constant tugging. Then you get tinnitus, from the loud screaming.

By Jack Handey

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Isn’t It Byronic?

“Well, life has a funny way of / Creeping up on you when you think / Everything’s goin’ great. / Then, boom, you fall in love with your sister.”

By Eli Burnstein

Film by Marc Philippe Eskenazi

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Reasons That I, a Middle-Aged Woman, Am Late to This Meeting

Lost track of time ruminating on the myriad ways I’ve failed my children.

By Wendi Aarons and Emily Flake

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Horoscopes Written by My Mother

With Saturn rising, you might feel the astrological pull of stubbornness in your sixth house. Like when Bess waited thirteen hours before she got the epidural.

By Bess Kalb