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Where the GOP’s Tax Extremism Comes From

Conservative* leaders like Grover Norquist want to basically eliminate taxes and government

Dec 2

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Pregnant and Addicted

Overcoming Stigma to Find Treatment

Dec 4

This famous Russian poet toured America to explain capitalism to the Soviets in the Roaring ‘20s

Vladimir Mayakovsky couldn’t help but love New York City, though

Nina Renata Aron

Nov 28

Taxing the American Dream

The proposed House tax plan would eliminate the possibility of graduate school for thousands of students.

Dec 1

Chemistry, not Culture

Instead of culture, let’s talk about chemistry in the workplace.

Apr 25

Why we desperately need women to design AI

At the moment, only about 12–15% of the engineers who are building the internet and its software are women.

Aug 4

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Pretty Birds in Pretty Cages: Could the Nuclear Family Be the Reason We’re All Miserable?

I’ll never forget the day I first fell apart. It was just after I left my job as a software engineer to stay home and raise my children…

Nicole Sallak Anderson

Nov 27

The World’s Most Essential Drug

How Placebo Can Be a Self-Fulfilling Prescription

Nov 30

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We Need a Sales Force for the Humanities

Fewer and fewer students are buying into one of the richest and most vibrant areas of study. It’s time to change that.

Dec 1

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How to Survive the Media Apocalypse

Pivot to readers.

Nov 29

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How My Poet-Refugee Mother Became A Trump Supporter

Like other Iranian Americans, my mom has a surprising — and dangerous — view of a president she would seemingly despise.

Dec 1

The Button Under His Desk

Jerks, Creeps, Criminals and the Importance of Leeann Tweeden

Nov 30

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Flynn’s Plea Raises New Questions About Whether Trump Obstructed Justice

Before firing then-FBI Director James Comey, the president reportedly asked him not to prosecute the former national-security adviser.

Dec 1

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How’s Jim Carrey Going to End?

“Well, if I had my choice, it wouldn’t start at all. It would already have been. And it wouldn’t end either.” — Jim Carrey, in Jim & Andy…

Ernio Hernandez

Nov 30

The Great Baby Bust of 2017

Fertility Is Falling Faster than You Realize

Nov 29

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They can’t round up everybody

In the U.S., immigrants who arrived as children haven’t been targeted for deportation. But that could change.

Nov 29

If human cloning happened

It started with sheep. Suppose cloning became routine for people

Nov 30

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Sleep Walking into a War

The Great Cyber War: Part 1

Nov 30

Underscores, Optimization & Arms Races

A history of how we started designing apps & content to appease algorithms instead of ourselves, and the arms race that ensued.

Nov 29

What I need from the men I love.

To men trying to do better in the midst of an epidemic of sexual violence.

Your Fat Friend

Nov 29

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Several Kinds of Fantasy

Or, a way to find books we want to read

Nov 29