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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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This Republican Wants Voters to Have a Say on Abortion
Republicans have struggled politically with the issue of abortion since the overturning of Roe v. Wade — a point proven…