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Don’t Give Trump Credit for Biden's Success

By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Stephen Henriques

Meet the New Coach of U.S. Women's Soccer

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TikTok Can't Save Biden's Campaign

By Michael Serazio

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A Feminist Defense of Barbie

Being a Barbie-loving feminist might seem contradictory, but the truth is far more complicated

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America Is Failing in the Present While Conservatives Try to Rewrite the Past

The real problem isn't "woke education" but that young Americans are experiencing cascading national crises

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The Fatal Tension at the Heart of Wokeism

The right may be more dangerous, but today’s left has deprived itself of ideas we need if we hope to resist a turn towards the right.

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The Damage of the Supreme Court's Climate Decision

One of the most urgent challenges we face, as a nation, is to confront the mounting costs and existential dangers of climate change. It’s a daunting task the Supreme Court just made harder.In a ruling...

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NASA's New Budget Means it Won't Be Going Back to the Moon Anytime Soon

It simply isn't getting the cash it needs to build the necessary hardware

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What History Reveals About Vaccine Hesitancy Today

The agonizingly slow upward creep of the U.S. COVID vaccination rate, coupled with the emergence of the Omicron variant, has observers speaking in tones of gloom. What is wrong with people who refuse to get...

By Jeanne Abrams and Hilary Smith

Biden's IRS Bank Reporting Proposal Will Foster Tax Fairness

Every year, taxpayers—mostly wealthy Americans—fail to pay $600 billion in taxes they owe. This so-called tax gap is equal to the federal income taxes paid by the lower 90% of all taxpayers. Ignoring this huge...

By Charles O. Rossotti

What We Have In Common With Humans Of 23,000 Years Ago

For all of our 21st-century trappings, our human paths align across the millennia.

By Susanna Schrobsdorff

To Build Back Better, Tax Ultra-Wealthy Families Like Ours

After a summer of speculation, the contours of the deal needed to pass President Joe Biden’s popular “Build Back Better” agenda are becoming clear. To win key votes, Congress will have to find fresh sources...

By Liesel Pritzker Simmons and Ian Simmons

Why We Must Hear the Warning in Frederick Douglass' 'Sources of Danger to the Republic' Today

On Jan. 3, 1867, nearly two years after the end of the Civil War, Frederick Douglass stood before a full house of hundreds of African Americans at Philadelphia’s National Hall. He had been invited to...

By Robert S. Levine

Democrats Must Pass Voting Rights Protections, But They Can't Codify a Lie

Back from their summer recess, Senate Democrats announced last week that they have united behind the “Freedom to Vote” Act, a compromise bill that would expand and protect the right to vote in important ways....

By William J. Barber II

The Quietly Rebellious Art of Iranian Women and What We Can Learn From Them

These artists take our worn stereotypes about femininity, religion, and war and push them out of context nudging us to see them differently.

By Susanna Schrobsdorff

After 9/11: I Wasn't Prepared to Prepare My Kids For This New Reality

Learning to raise little kids in a world where planes can be bombs and the horizon can change in an instant

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How the Slave Trade Shaped Epidemiology Today

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, many have been frustrated by the ways in which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) keeps changing its rules and response to the pandemic. What most don’t understand...

By Jim Downs

What Is 'Tragic Optimism' and Can It Help Us Make Sense Of This Moment?

Learning to let happiness be a byproduct of the search for purpose.

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Paulina Porizkova, A.I. Filters, and the 'Shallow Dating Ponds' of Middle Age

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