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Americans are inherently a little crazy. But now the crazy is being enabled by politicians in the White House and by the internet. How exactly did it get so bad?
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Heaven is a place on earth, says a major American thinker. And a certain awesome ’80s pop song.
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Here’s how the government improves your life without you knowing it.
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Capitalism has hijacked our emotions and rewired us for instant gratification—but we can reclaim our lives by practicing deep hope.
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To understand ourselves, our creativity and emotions, we must grapple with our pre-human existence.
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Here’s why you should always be looking for new income streams—even if you already have a full-time job.
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Shaka spent nearly two decades in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder, and spent 7 of those years in solitary confinement. But he says that it’s life after prison that can be much more shocking.
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Meditation is a lot more than just chilling out and reflecting. It can actually rewire your brain to become a better person.
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Half the pain of paying taxes is having no control over where it goes. This Harvard professor has a great idea to give people more of a voice… and it involves just a very slight change in something as boring as a parking ticket.
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Who will live on the this brand-new floating nation in the South Pacific—and how?
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Here’s what Israel Guillen learned about life by studying 8 hours a day during his 22-year prison sentence.
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Have you heard the one about the U.S. Open and Yom Kippur? You’re about to.
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From the depth of the AIDS crisis, a new community discovered itself and defeated victimhood.
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Don’t settle for comfortable and familiar thoughts, reach for what you don’t know, says Harvard professor Stephen Greenblatt.
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What makes a great book… well… great? Author Salman Rushdie gives us his idea on what separates the classics from the rest of the class.
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Is there life on other planets? Harvard biologist Jonathan B. Losos has an interesting theory that since there are so many Earth-type planets in our galaxy alone that there’s a good chance that there’s some humanoid looking (at least in the bipedal sense) creatures out there, too. Just like a Hollywood movie.
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Will A.I. take us over, and one day look back on this time period as the dawn of their civilization? Richard Dawkins posits an interesting idea, or at the very least a premise to a good science-fiction novel.
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Why do first-world ailments get cured faster than global health crises? Because Big Pharma doesn’t serve sick people, it serves rich people—let’s change that.
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Rabbi Darren Levine explains how the psychology of happiness intersects with religious practice.
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We are on the verge of the ‘Total Work’ dystopia, a prediction first made in 1948. Can Universal Basic Income wake us from our stupor?
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When it comes to climate change, gun control, and vaccinations, facts don’t change people’s minds—but there is one technique that might.
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The NASA probe to Saturn went out in a blaze of glory last week.
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The Mayor of Atlanta explains that if your version of America involves keeping “others” out, then you have yet to learn the lessons of the past.
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When we create something more intelligent than we could ever be, what happens after that? We have to teach it.
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Since Russia (most likely) hacked our Presidential election in 2016, there’s been talk of using cell phones for voting. Think again.
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Some anxieties are essential, and for millennia they kept our ancestors alive. But there’s another type of anxiety that we can actually do away with—and it’s defeated via hope.
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The #1 problem with America’s mission to spread democracy? We don’t know how to do it.
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Why does America confuse fantasy for reality, in pop culture and in politics? Kurt Andersen can pinpoint the moment it happened.
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Infants can learn a lot about the world—if adults know the right ways to encourage them.
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We’ve heard it before: Artificial Intelligence is coming to take our jobs. But is it really their fault, or the company that can’t figure out how to create new ones?
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