The Social Ritual That Made Me a Better Man

How Social Media Became Antisocial

The Social Security Fix That Would Send Tax Rates Soaring

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The French surrealists, stricken by serving in World War I, adopted a new philosophical approach: “vibrant pessimism”

Spain's largest research organization confronts its dark past

Rage of the Falling Elite

A Closer Look: Drawings from Venice and Veneto

The rise of computer chips — and the race to control them

Early Americans Pioneered the Keto Diet

U.K. Might Force Social Platforms To Give Government-Backed Media Special Status

The Elixir of the Payroll-Tax Cap and Other Social Security Myths

Pew Poll: 56% of U.S. Adults Support Social Media Ban for Everyone Under 16

Warren's Plan To 'Fix' Social Security Would Be Largest Tax Increase in Over 40 Years

No, Seriously, Decriminalizing Drugs Kills People

We are entering a world of extreme cognitive polarization. Some people will use AI to think more. Others will use AI to think less 

Norbert Wiener warned in 1960 that machines and humans are foreign to each other. We still are

Bolaño envy. Is Latin American literature, in its totality, more important than literature produced in the United States?

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The DOJ Challenges Virginia's 'Assault Firearm' Law and California's Glock Ban