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Talk to Me
At the risk of sounding mawkishly positive, I think I’ve discovered a cheap, simple fix for our fraying social, emotional and political health. It’s easy to bemoan our problems as intractable, blaming familiar culprits like rising wealth inequality ...
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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 a year, my days were consumed by intrusive thoughts and feelings of angst, dread and despair. It was a terrifying and ...
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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 lying and a reason to disengage from our democratic system entirely. There’s a class of lying so extreme, however, that it exceeds ...
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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 fragmented attention has reached truly catastrophic proportions. High school and college teachers overwhelmingly report that students ...
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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 of graduate school.
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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 fog quite so brightly as a remark this month from Hillary Clinton on “The View.” “Remember,” the former secretary of state said, “there was ...
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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 forms; we might even try an experiment or two.
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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 an aide to Justice Clarence Thomas for a Christmas party was surprising. Just as surprising was the way the publication learned about it: from ...
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