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- ‘Grandparenting on Eggshells’
Many parents are teaching their children that they don’t owe their relatives hugs—which means new rules for everyone.
- The First Prophet of Abundance
David Lilienthal’s account of his years running the Tennessee Valley Authority can read like the Abundance of 1944. We still have a lot to learn from what the book says — and from what it leaves out.
- "Fareed's Take" on the latest Ukraine situation
Go to video Related The Nobel Peace Prize isn't for surrenders.
- WHY IS ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. SO CONVINCED HE’S RIGHT?
How an outsider, once ignored by the public-health establishment, became the most powerful man in science
- What the S&P 500 is hiding about the economy
A few trillion-dollar companies are powering the market’s gains. Here’s what’s happening to most other businesses in the United States. Thanks Tom!
- A new lens reveals higher ed’s hidden fragility
Headlines keep pulling our attention toward high-profile clashes between politicians and elite research universities. But quietly, out of the spotlight, a far more immediate crisis is taking shape on campuses that may look "fine" from the outside: dozens of small and midsize private colleges with familiar names are far closer to the financial edge than their public statements suggest.
- Is Food Getting Better?
The Thanksgivings of yore featured overcooked turkeys and Jell-O salad. Surely we’ve evolved.
- Update: was there Russian authorship of lopsided U.S Ukrainian "peace plan?"
Lawmakers say Rubio distanced US from peace plan. Members of Congress attending an international security forum said Secretary of State Marco Rubio called them to say the Americans did not instigate the proposal. Related
- A suspicion from 2016 is becoming a U.S. political monster
The democratic party is falling behind while Trump accelerates technology innovation. Related: The surprising issue driving a wedge between Trump and his MAGA base
- A Victorian-era cannibalism case poses a simple but profound question
“The custom of the sea” ended with a landmark conviction in Britain.
- It’s the ‘most important fish in the sea.’ And it’s disappearing.
If the menhaden decline continues, striped bass could be next to vanish.
- An 8 percent lifetime ‘tax’ is coming for students
Fundamental reform, not quick fixes, will save America’s education system. Excerpt: " Though no one has suggested it, the government’s fiscal problems could be solved by an 8 percent income tax surcharge. Nobody has suggested it because it is an absurd idea, but we have already imposed a comparable tax on K-12 students: The declines in student achievement over the past dozen years work out to similar lifetime income reductions!"