The Collective: Curated by Collin Duwe

- What Do Aaron Rodgers and Shailene Woodley ‘Agree to Disagree’ About?  A quest to find out where her political (and astrologically sensitive) beliefs begin and his unchecked viral load ends.
- It's Your Friends Who Break Your Heart;  The older we get, the more we need our friends—and the harder it is to keep them.
- The Undoing of Joss Whedon;  The Buffy creator, once an icon of Hollywood feminism, is now an outcast accused of misogyny. How did he get here?
- Pit Viper Made the Perfect Sunglasses. Then the Alt-Right Fell in Love With Them;  Here’s how the company fought to get its identity back from extremists.
- Why are McDonald's Ice Cream Machines Always Broken?  McDonald's is notorious for frequent malfunctions of its ice cream machine. What's behind those malfunctions and why is the government getting involved?
- The Race to Free Washington’s Last Orca in Captivity;  A southern resident’s violent capture off Whidbey Island was the original sin of a now-defunct local industry. Decades later, a Lummi-led effort to bring her home is on the verge of an improbable breakthrough.
- He Spent 25 Years Infiltrating Nazis, the Klan, and Biker Gangs;  Scott was a top undercover agent for the FBI, putting himself in harm's way dozens of times. Now, he’s telling his story for the first time to sound the alarm about the threat of far-right extremists in America.
- The Two Kanyes;  Netflix’s new jeen-yuhs documentary takes us inside Kanye’s early quest for greatness with unprecedented intimacy—and reveals fresh glimpses of who that young striver turned into after he touched the sky.

- The Search for Lost Slave Ships;  Explorer Tara Roberts took up diving to learn about the human side of a tragic era. She wound up connecting with her family’s inspiring past.
- Who Is Sam Asghari?  Britney Spears’s fiancé is working on his own path to fame in a year that has thrust him into the spotlight.
- What Happens to a Shopping Mall After It Dies?  Exploring the underworld of mall melancholia.
- 25 Famous Women on Their Guilty Pleasures and Indulgences;  Whether it be luxurious skin care, a single cigarette, trashy reality TV, or (my personal favorite) a trip to Costco, it’s important that we let ourselves indulge in the things we love. It’s self-care, not selfishness!
- GIFs Are For Boomers Now, Sorry;  The humble image file was once everywhere, but it's increasingly falling out of favor among young internet users.

**Bonus: DoesTheDogDie.Com;  Crowdsourced emotional spoilers for movies, tv, books and more.
**Bonus+: WikiTrivia;  Harder than it looks, you Wordle nerds.

jk here's one - i think these are cute as shit.