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After I became a parent, my social media feeds filled up with videos of kids who are sick or have died. Why couldn’t I look away?

Jordan Castro’s The Novelist nails the experience of being online, in all its abject glory.

If you can think of it, there’s probably a reality show about it. The surplus has taken the genre into the surreal.

The new novel Amor Cringe bills itself as “deepfake autofiction.” WIRED talked to its coauthors, K. Allado-McDowell and the language model GPT-3.

Justice Samuel Alito says the right to abortion was unknown in US law until “the latter part of the 20th century.” History says otherwise.

The CEO of digital abortion clinic Hey Jane discusses the grim future of reproductive rights in the US and the clinic’s plans to keep providing access.

With overdose deaths on the rise, it’s more important than ever to carry potentially life-saving medications. You never know who might need it.