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Oct 25, 2018
America Is Polarized. It’s Why We Have to Start Listening to Each Other
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by Margaret Hoover
Oct 25, 2018
There’s Nothing Virtuous About Finding Common Ground
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by Tayari Jones
Oct 25, 2018
Why Anger Is a Wasted Emotion
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by David French
Oct 25, 2018
Public Rage Won’t Solve Any of Our Problems
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by Phil Klay
Oct 25, 2018
How Europe Turned Compassion Into a Crime
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by Maria Serrano
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Oct 24, 2018
Why Politicians Are Texting You So Much — And It’s Only the Beginning
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by Katy Steinmetz
Oct 24, 2018
If the Government Redefines Gender to Exclude Trans People, It Could Worsen an Urgent Public Health Crisis
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by Tia Powell, Jules Chyten Brennan, Viraj Patel and Vafa Tabatabaie
Oct 24, 2018
Can Art Heal a Broken Society?
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by Hope Azeda
Oct 24, 2018
What Must Be Done to Create a World Without Polio
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by Barry Rassin and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Oct 23, 2018
How Americans Lost Their National Identity
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by Yoram Hazony
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Oct 23, 2018
The Trump Administration Wants to Define a Person's Sex at Birth. It's Just Not That Simple
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by Elizabeth Reis
Oct 19, 2018
I’m a Young Saudi Journalist. Jamal Khashoggi’s Disappearance Will Not Silence Us
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by Jasmine Bager
Oct 19, 2018
What Happened to My Friend Jamal Khashoggi Shows How Saudi Arabia Spreads Fear and Buys the West's Silence
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by Tawakkol Karman
Oct 19, 2018
The Week That Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Lost His Luster
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by Ian Bremmer
Oct 18, 2018
Steven Pinker's Tribute to the 'Low-Key Extravagance' of Microsoft's Paul Allen
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by Steven Pinker