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Today’s young people have not seen a lot of good examples of adults working together to solve problems. Generation Z is coming of age amidst daunting issues like climate change, gun violence, and a teen mental health crisis, and trusted adults seem few and far between to many of them. The rift goes both ways — Baby Boomers and Generation X also report distrust and dislike...
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How will emerging technologies continue to impact a new generation of Americans?
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Across the industrialized world, millions of people live with sparse human contact.
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Maajid Nawaz shares his remarkable journey from Islamist extremism to liberal democratic values.
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For many people, the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown became an unexpected opportunity to take stock of our relationships. Some friendships deepened and transformed, some slipped away, and many social circles shrank. Which isn’t always a bad thing.
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The architecture of how we live our lives is badly in need of renovation and repair.
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Writers Tara Westover and Sarah Smarsh say the damaging stereotypes of people living in rural America need to be stamped out.
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How is social justice best pursued in a time when America is facing a reckoning on race? In today's cancel culture, many believe making the world a better place means banishing some opinions from the public sphere. John McWhorter, associate professor of English at Columbia University, says this censorious mindset threatens the value of free speech. McWhorter, a linguist an...