The elite college students who can’t read books
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Israel’s ultra-Orthodox don’t serve in its armed forces. That’s getting harder than ever to justify and threatens Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition.
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How the ballpoint pen killed cursive
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The bizarre story behind Shinzo Abe’s assassination
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Learn a foreign language before it’s too late
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Don't blame Dostoyevsky - Culture, too, is a casualty of war
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How politics poisoned the Evangelical church
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Absolute power
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Human history gets a rewrite
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He taught a Ta-Nehisi Coates essay. Then he was fired.
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What we still don't know about Emmett Till's murder
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Why Confederate lies live on
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Why Confederate lies live on
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Lincoln's great depression
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A sea story
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Atheists are sometimes more religious than Christians
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The next decade could be even worse: A historian believes he has discovered iron laws that predict the rise and fall of societies. He has bad news.
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How the ballpoint pen killed cursive
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Last exit from autocracy
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What Jim Crow taught the Nazis: In the 1930s, the Nazi regime were fascinated by the global leader in codified race law — the United States
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Academics are really, really worried about their freedom
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The Bush-Gore recount is an omen for 2020: An oral history of the craziest presidential election in modern US history
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The case for reparations: We've had 250 years of slavery, 90 years of Jim Crow, 60 years of separate but equal and 35 years of racist housing policy. Without addressing this, the US can't move on
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How conspiracy theories fueled the US civil war
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Early warnings: How American journalists reported the rise of Hitler
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How white backlash controls American progress: Backlash dynamics are one of the defining patterns of the country’s history
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The great 5G conspiracy - Part of a series on conspiracy thinking in America
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An Oxford professor, an evangelical collector, and a missing gospel of Mark: A scholar claimed that he discovered a first-century gospel fragment, now faces allegations of theft, cover-up, and fraud
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Children growing up after this crisis will use far more oral language after it ends
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How Narendra Modi serves the Hindu ideal of Bharat in opposition to secular ideals of India
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The world is experiencing a new form of autocracy
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The Muslim world’s question: ‘What happened to us?’
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Prohibition was a failed experiment in moral governance
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Why so many Americans are turning to Buddhism
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How to keep teachers from leaving the profession
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Trump has defected to the autocrats
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The case for reparations
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Atomic veterans were silenced for fifty Years. Now, they’re talking.
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Abolish the priesthood: To save the Church, Catholics must detach themselves from the clerical hierarchy—and take the faith back into their own hands
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Pope Francis stops hiding from the Church’s sexual-abuse epidemic
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Learning my father’s language: I made a vow to teach myself Irish, the language my mother struggled to learn, so that my daughters may learn it too
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They had it coming - The parents indicted in the college-admissions scandal were responding to a changing America, with rage at being robbed of what they believed was rightfully theirs
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M-16: A bureaucratic horror story
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Nazis have always been trolls
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Why White people don't use White emoji: Does shame explain the disparity in the lesser use of light-skin-tone symbols in the US?
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Emoji don't mean what they used to - The pictorial language has moved away from ideography and toward illustration
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A sea story
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What should America do with its empty church buildings?
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American exorcism
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At 63, I threw away my prized portrait of Robert E. Lee
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