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Mike Pesca on How the Media Got Polarized

We Keep Failing the Blasphemy Test

The Representation Gap

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What Was the American Jew?

Kant vs the Algorithm

Kwame Anthony Appiah on the Right—and Wrong—Way for Universities to Handle Identity

A Reckoning Is Coming for the Democrats

The People Will Save the Planet, Not the Courts

What Trump Might Do in Office

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The Importance of Getting the Full Picture

Vinay Prasad on What Went Wrong With COVID

Social Media, Not the Economy, is Harming Teen Mental Health

What Rush Hath Wrought

The Americans Who Long for Caesar

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Bring Back The Culture of Debate!

Alexandra Hudson on Why Civility Matters

How to Fight Misinformation Without Censorship

The Future of American Sports Isn’t Pretty

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When Hatred of the Left Becomes Love for Putin

Jonathan Haidt on The Anxious Generation

What RFK—And the Libertarian Party—Have Become

A Mid-August Fever Dream

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Ukraine’s Leadership Crisis

Jonathan Lynn on How Government Works (and "Yes, Minister")

When Everything is Eugenics, Nothing Is

The Gap in Today’s Journalism

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How To Save a Democracy

We’re Falling Into Trump’s Trap… Again

Coleman Hughes on Colorblindness

How To Make Friends and Influence People

Why Iran's Woman Life Freedom Revolution Failed

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You're Thinking About Polarization All Wrong

Ed Luce on America in 2024

How Pseudo-Intellectualism Ruined Journalism

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What Independent Bookshops Really Sell

All Politics Is Now Media Criticism

Alex Byrne on the Trouble with Gender

How Broken Is Academia?

Moderate Republicans Continue to Betray Their Principles

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Is China Capable of Attacking Taiwan?

Larry Summers on What Went Wrong on Campus

Meet Indonesia’s New Strongman

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What Shocked Me About the Culture at Yale

What Navalny Represented

Francisco Toro on Guatemala’s Political Revolution

Why North Korea Survives

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When I Was a Hostage

Let the American People See Trump’s Trials

Ricardo Hausmann on How Economies Grow

A Comeback For Merit In College Admissions

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Isaiah Berlin and the Tragedy of Pluralism

Martha Nussbaum on Living (and Eating) Morally

Germany Is Being Served Up on a Platter to the Far Right

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Robots Are No Substitute For A Social Life

Why Men Are Drifting to the Far Right

Ruy Teixeira on How the Democrats Lost the Working Class

America’s Families Are Not Okay

What Biden Needs To Do To Win

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A Guide for the Politically Homeless

Albert Wu on Taiwan’s Past, Present and Future

The Fire Next Time

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Guatemala Just Ran January 6th In Reverse

Taiwan Goes Its Own Way

Rob Henderson on Foster Care, Social Class and the New American Elite

The Economic Cost of Right-Wing Populism

Conservatism’s Path Not Taken

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What’s Next for College Admissions?

Tyler Austin Harper on How to Fix American Universities

The Apparent Conflict Between Universal and Particular Language

The False Link Between Climate Change and Mass Migration