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Dec 22, 2021
How to Tell Your Family That You Are An Atheist
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by David G. McAfee
Dec 21, 2021
How to Make COVID-19 Testing for Travel Far More Effective
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by Michael Mina
Dec 21, 2021
If the Economy Is Doing So Well, Why Does It Feel Like a Disaster?
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by Zachary Karabell
Dec 20, 2021
My Kids Can't Get Vaccinated Yet, and I'm Barely Keeping It Together
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by Katie Gutierrez
Dec 20, 2021
How Trump Stole Christmas—And Why Evangelicals Rally to Their Savior
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by Samuel L. Perry
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Dec 20, 2021
What Low-Wage Workers Understand About the True Meaning of Christmas
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by William J. Barber II
Dec 20, 2021
The New Year's Resolution to Make When Everything Feels Out of Your Control
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by Aubrey Hirsch
Dec 20, 2021
Protests Reduce Police Killings, New Research Shows
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by Susan Olzak
Dec 17, 2021
What History Reveals About Vaccine Hesitancy Today
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by Jeanne Abrams and Hilary Smith
Dec 16, 2021
A 'Mississippi Compromise' on Abortion Would Threaten All Our Freedoms
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by Alexis McGill Johnson and Anthony D. Romero
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Dec 16, 2021
Why COVID-19 Case Counts Don't Mean What They Used To As Omicron Hits
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by Monica Gandhi and Leslie Bienen
Dec 16, 2021
bell hooks Wasn't Afraid to Burn It All Down and Begin Again
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by dream hampton
Dec 15, 2021
Let's Not Be Fatalistic About Omicron. We Know How to Fight It
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by Gavin Yamey, William Hanage and Tom Moultrie
Dec 14, 2021
A Tornado Destroyed My Family's Hometown But It Had Already Been Lost
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by Lee Cole
Dec 13, 2021
Why Elon Musk Will Go Down in History
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by Walter Isaacson