Should a country speak a single language? In India, one of the world’s most polyglot countries, the government wants more than a billion people to embrace Hindi.
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A new rallying cry for the irony-poisoned right. It took less than twenty-four hours after Trump’s re-election for young men to take up a slogan that could define the coming era of gendered regression
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Swedish photographer Lars Tunbjörk documented remarkably dreary corporate spaces – his images should remind us that it didn't have to be this way
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Taylor Lorenz’s plan to dance on legacy media’s grave
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Does anyone really know you?
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Why AI isn't going to make art
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Can MAGA be multicultural? Making sense of Donald Trump’s appeal to nonwhite American voters.
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Britain’s embrace of the bomb
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How CoComelon captures our children’s attention
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When the CIA messes up
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The repressive, authoritarian soul of “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends”
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Nova Scotia’s billion-dollar lobster wars
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The lonely work of moderating Hacker News
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Do children have a “right to hug” their parents?
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A British nurse was found guilty of killing seven babies. Did she do it?
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Nathan Berman has helped rescue Manhattan’s financial district from a “doom loop” by carving attractive living spaces from hulking buildings that once housed fields of cubicles
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How ECMO is redefining death
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How Chinese students experience America
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The rise and fall of the trad wife: Alena Kate Pettitt helped lead an online movement promoting domesticity. Now she says, “It’s become its own monster.”
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A pill to make exercise obsolete (2017)
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How foreign policy became a campaign issue for the 2024 US presidential election
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A startling rise in sea-surface temperatures suggests that we may not understand how fast the climate is changing
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What's the matter with men? They’re floundering at school and in the workplace. Some conservatives blame a crisis of masculinity, but the problems—and their solutions—are far more complex.
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A professor claimed to be Native American. Did she know she wasn’t?
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Starburst – Disturbances on the sun may have the potential to devastate our power grid and communication systems. When the next big storm arrives, will we be prepared for it?
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The Israeli settlers attacking their Palestinian neighbors – With the world’s focus on Gaza, settlers have used wartime chaos as cover for violence and dispossession
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How Nikola Jokić became the world’s best basketball player
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Beatriz Flamini, the woman who spent five hundred days in a cave
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China’s age of malaise
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Coming of age at the dawn of the social internet (LiveJournal, AIM, and other pre-Facebook internet things)
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Trials of the witchy women: Across seven centuries, women have been accused of witchcraft—but what that means often differs wildly, revealing the anxieties of each particular society
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The price of Benjamin Netanyahu’s ambition – the Prime Minister seems unable to distinguish between his own interests and his country’s
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Silent Spring (Rachel Carson, 1962)
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Frantz Fanon’s enduring legacy – The post-colonial thinker’s seminal book, “The Wretched of the Earth,” described political oppression in psychological terms
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Studies suggest that relying on will power is hopeless [to eliminate bad habits]. Instead, we must find strategies that don’t require us to be strong.
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The personal, political art of board-game design
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Sentenced to life for an accident miles away
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What would Sandra Day O’Connor have thought about affirmative action for men?
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What is a math department worth?
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A coder considers the waning days of the craft
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Elon Musk’s poisoned platform
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The next power plant is on the roof and in the basement
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Jezebel and the question of women’s anger
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The extreme ambitions of West Bank settlers
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The chaos of the dice
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The great cash-for-carbon hustle
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Why the “privacy” wars rage on
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When foster parents don’t want to give back the baby
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How the Yale unions took over New Haven
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J. B. Pritzker: the billionaire US hotel heir—and progressive?
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