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At the risk of sounding mawkishly positive, I think I’ve discovered a cheap, simple fix for our fraying social, emotional…

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Not Everything Has to Be Meaningful

In 2017, I was blindsided by the sudden onset of obsessive compulsive disorder and secondary depression. For the better of…

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The Very Good Reason People Like George Santos Lie About Nonsense

All politicians lie. So many people consider that idea self-evident that I’ve heard it deployed as both a defense of…

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Powerful Forces Are Fracking Our Attention. We Can Fight Back.

The lament is as old as education itself: The students aren’t paying attention. But today, the problem of flighty or…

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Where Can You Go to Grad School Without Going to Grad School?

The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research offers adult learners an education opportunity at a fraction of the time and price…

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‘Who’s That Wonderful Girl? Could She Be Any Cuter?’

She’s Mona, the puppet heroine of “Nanalan’,” an old Canadian children’s show that has found a new audience on TikTok.

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The ‘Cease-Fire Now’ Imposture

Of all that’s been said and written about the war between Israel and Hamas, nothing has cut through the mental…

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Argentina Braces Itself for Its New ‘Anarcho-Capitalist’ President

Javier Milei has said that society is better without government. Now he is about to run Argentina’s.

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The Crisis in Issue Polling, and What We’re Doing About It

A poll can be very close to the actual result but miss the key story line. We’ll try new question…

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What Google’s Multibillion Payment to Apple Says About Privacy and Power in Tech

A report in The Guardian in August that lawyers who had had business before the Supreme Court gave money to…

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