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The One Idea That Could Save American Democracy
These days, we often hear that democracy is on the ballot. And there’s a truth to that: Winning elections is critical, especially as liberal and progressive forces try to fend off radical right-wing movements. But the democratic crisis that our ...
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The Internet Is a Wasteland, So Give Kids Better Places to Go
In January, I had the odd experience of nodding along with Senator Lindsey Graham, who can usually be relied on to be wrong, as he berated supervillain Mark Zuckerberg, head of Facebook’s parent company, Meta, about the effect its products have on ...
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Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley and Politically Obtuse Plutocrats
All Wall Street wants is a good hypocrite — someone who can convince the Republican base that he or she shares its extremism, but whose real priority is to enrich the 1 percent. Is that too much to ask? Apparently, yes. If you’re not a politics ...
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The G.O.P. Goes Full-on Extremist
There are no moderate Republicans in the House of Representatives. Oh, no doubt some members are privately appalled by the views of Mike Johnson, the new speaker. But what they think in the privacy of their own minds isn’t important. What matters is ...
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Politics
Same-Sex Behavior Evolved in Many Mammals to Reduce Conflict, Study Suggests
But the researchers cautioned that the work could not shed much light on sexual orientation in humans.
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How China Made Its Housing Crisis Worse
Years of inattention to building an adequate safety net for seniors, the jobless and others in financial stress have left Chinese consumers afraid to spend.
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Dog Parks Are Great for People. Too Bad They’re Terrible for Dogs.
For urban dog owners with a live-wire canine bouncing off the apartment walls, an enclosed dog park can feel like an oasis, offering off-the-leash exercise, an outlet for excess energy, a social experience for the dog and, often, for the humans, too ...
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Is Fear of Crime a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?
Violent crime — homicides, robberies, gun assaults — has begun to fall from pandemic-era levels. But people are scared. According to the Pew Research Center, almost 60 percent of Americans today say that violent crime is a “very big problem.” In New ...
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Legacy Admissions Don’t Work the Way You Think They Do
Just four days after the Supreme Court rejected racial preferences in college admissions, a consortium of Black and Latino interest groups filed a complaint against Harvard concerning a different kind of preference: the special consideration given to ...
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Overlooked No More: James Sakoda, Whose Wartime Internment Inspired a Social Science Tool
After documenting his experience in Japanese American internment camps, Sakoda helped bring the study of human behavior to the computer age