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Back to SearchHearing Aids Work. So Why Don’t More People Wear Them?
Stigma. Discomfort. High pitched feedback. These are some reasons that people opt out of wearing hearing aids. Yet, hearing loss has been linked to d…
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How Do You Friction-Maxx?
“Friction-maxxing,” a term coined by The Cut columnist Kathryn Jezer-Morton, is the art of adding more inconvenience to our lives —as technology push…
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Are Social Media Companies Responsible for Screen Addiction in Kids?
For years, experts, educators and parents have sounded alarms about the dangers of kids spending too much time on screens and now, artificial intelli…
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How Prop 50 and Governor’s Race Are Shaping Early Midterm Projections
The 2026 midterm elections may be in November, but they’re top of mind for California voters who will elect a new governor this year and who passed P…
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Are We 'Overinvested' in Our Kids?
There is near consensus on one facet of American life these days: parenting is hard. In surveys, most parents report being exhausted. Parenting is ce…
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What's the Endgame in DHS Brutality?
The fatal shooting of Alex Pretti on Saturday, the second U.S. citizen killed by federal agents in Minneapolis this month, is drawing bipartisan outr…
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China’s Push for Renewable Energy is Good for the Planet, but Maybe Not for the U.S.
At Davos, Donald Trump claimed that China doesn’t use wind energy, or in his words, “windmills.” He could not be more wrong. In 2024, China accounted…
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California ER Doctors Reflect on ‘The Pitt’ Effect
The popular HBO drama “The Pitt,” set in a Pittsburgh emergency trauma center, is having an impact on real-world healthcare. Doctors across Californi…
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What Should Replace San Francisco Centre?
After years of being known as a defunct mall, San Francisco Centre officially closed last weekend leaving 1.2 million square feet of vacant space. Th…
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Heather Cox Richardson on Trump's Impact on Democracy
Calling out ICE and the National Guard to police Los Angeles, Portland and Minneapolis. DOGE and the evisceration of government institutions. Invadin…
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