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Trump says he doesn’t want war with Iran, while his senior diplomats look for ways to defuse tensions. 1/19

Iran says the White House's approach to resuming talks is like “holding a gun at someone and asking for friendship.” 2/19

Analysis: Any student of international relations will notice the White House falling into a familiar trap. 3/19

Newly-unredacted court papers find Michael Flynn telling investigators that people linked to Trump reached out to him to interfere in the Russia probe. 4/19

What it’s like to watch or listen to true crime stories when you’re the relative of a murder victim. 5/19

No matter what Twitter says, it is possible simultaneously to like and dislike things about the same piece of media. 6/19

A new wrinkle in the authorship controversy around Shakespeare: What if he was a woman? The case for playwright Emilia Bassano. 7/19

Because the US is so isolated from global literature, we're missing out on "a thousand really good works of fiction every year." 8/19

Macron says he's open to a “contemporary gesture” for rebuilding Notre Dame. Design proposals include a rooftop pool. 9/19

I.M. Pei dies at 102, architect of Hong Kong’s Bank of China building and Paris’s Louvre pyramid. 10/19

Americans with diplomatic problems in Austria can seek help at any one of the country's 194 McDonald’s locations. 11/19

"Sometimes when I'm stressed, I'll walk up the stairs backwards." Polar explorer Erling Kagge talks about the value of walking. 12/19

Matika Wilbur is attempting to photograph every federally recognized Native American tribe. 13/19

State legislators across the country wildly overestimate their constituents’ preferences on banning abortion. 14/19

The Supreme Court was all teed up to gut America’s abortion rights. Then Alabama happened. 15/19

Telling students about gender bias in teacher evaluations leads to significantly higher rankings for female instructors. 16/19

CBD has become a pop-culture phenomenon. But even in the best-known case studies, it's not always an unqualified success. 17/19

"To those who lived before headphones, it might seem as though I want to exist in the world without actually being part of it. And to some extent, that’s true." Wearing headphones all day (and all night) enables you to “noise-cancel” life. 18/19

Listen: What a “waterfall” of monarch butterflies sounds like. 19/19

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