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Rachel Syme Teaches You How to Write a Memorable Letter
New Yorker writer Rachel Syme loves letters — their content, the paper they are written on, the envelopes that enclose them. For Syme, “A letter is a…
1 year, 2 months ago
Kurt Gray Explores the Psychology of Outrage
What is outrage, and what triggers it in us? When someone violates our moral sense, we might bristle with rage or thirst for retribution but UNC psyc…
1 year, 3 months ago
The Opposition Playbook: What Would an Effective Resistance to Trump Look Like?
In the midst of President Trump’s rapid fire, sweeping, and arguably illegal actions since inauguration day, resistance and protest against the presi…
1 year, 3 months ago
What Do You Love About Being Single?
Journalist Nicola Slawson has been single for more than a decade, and says there’s beautiful freedom in being unattached. But, too often, single peop…
1 year, 3 months ago
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie Takes Your Questions
During his campaign for San Francisco mayor, Daniel Lurie promised to bring progress on tough issues that have dogged the city for years including ho…
1 year, 3 months ago
OMB Director and Project 2025 Architect Russell Vought Halts CFPB Funding
Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought on Saturday halted new funding to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and temporarily sh…
1 year, 3 months ago
Juvenile Incarceration Declined by 77%. Did Public Policy Do Something Right?
Between 2000 and 2020, the number of young people incarcerated in the United States declined by an astonishing 77 percent. Red states and blue states…
1 year, 3 months ago
Will Courts be a Check and Balance on Donald Trump?
President Trump’s executive orders are testing the limits of presidential power, but they are not going unchallenged. An avalanche of litigation has …
1 year, 3 months ago
USAID Closure Puts “Millions of Lives at Risk,” Humanitarian Groups Warn
President Trump on Friday called for the closure of the U.S. Agency for International Development, America’s main humanitarian and development agency…
1 year, 3 months ago
The Future of Dietary Supplements Under Trump’s FDA
Dietary supplements like those for weight loss and muscle building have become a multi-billiondollar industry, even as health experts say that in man…
1 year, 3 months ago