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How Warren Buffett's Son Would Feed the World
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How Warren Buffett's Son Would Feed the World

Howard G. Buffett has spent most of his life as a farmer, with little financial support from his father until recently. Now he runs a multibillion-dollar foundation dedicated to ending world hunger.

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May 2016
How Islam Created Europe
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How Islam Created Europe

In late antiquity, Islam split the Mediterranean world in two. Now it is remaking the Continent.

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May 2016
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How Americans Lost Faith In The Presidency

The Vietnam War opened the credibility gap. What we’ve learned since has only widened it.

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October 2017
The Ideas Of The Year 2015
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The Ideas Of The Year 2015

A guide to the intellectual trends that, for better or worse, are informing our national conversation and shaping our lives.

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July - August 2015
How The New Political Correctness Is Ruining Education
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How The New Political Correctness Is Ruining Education

Todays college students can't seem to take a joke.

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September 2015
The Coddling of the American Mind
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The Coddling of the American Mind

In the name of emotional well-being, college students are increasingly demanding protection from words and ideas they don't like, and seeking punishment of those who give even accidental offense. Here's why that's disastrous for education - and likely to worsen mental health on campus.

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September 2015
Ta-Nehisi Coates - Letter To My Son
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Ta-Nehisi Coates - Letter To My Son

"And have brought humanity to the edge of oblivion: because they think they are white." - James Baldwin

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September 2015
American Foreign Policy and the Surge Fallacy
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American Foreign Policy and the Surge Fallacy

Having misunderstood the lessons of the Iraq War, Republicans are taking a dangerously hawkish turn on foreign policy.

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September 2015
How The Bankers Stayed Out Of Jail
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How The Bankers Stayed Out Of Jail

The probes into bank fraud leading up to the crash have been quietly closed. Has justice been done?

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September 2015
Virtual Reality Gets Real
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Virtual Reality Gets Real

Will you ever see the sun again?

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October 2015
The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration: Part III-V
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The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration: Part III-V

Two years after being named NBPA president, the Clippers guard dishes for the first time on Michele Roberts, Donald Sterling and the players looming battle with owners. (Hint: They want revenge.)

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October 2015
The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration: Part VI-IX
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The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration: Part VI-IX

In saving the sacred cow, those whose lives depend on dead animals are being robbed of their livelihood.

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October 2015
If You're Not Paranoid, You're Crazy
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If You're Not Paranoid, You're Crazy

As government agencies and tech companies find ever more intrusive ways to influence and probe our thoughts and behavior, one man considers how to stay human in the panopticon.

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November 2015
Hollywood On The Yellow Sea
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Hollywood On The Yellow Sea

Wang Jianlin, one of Chinas richest men, is creating a rival to the American dream factory, from scratch.

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December 2015
The Women Who Changed Spycraft
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The Women Who Changed Spycraft

An old-boy operation was transformed during World War II, and at last the unsung upstarts are getting their due.

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June 2019
Ethiopia's Image-Maker
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Ethiopia's Image-Maker

Aïda Muluneh, whose vibrant photographs explore national identity, wants to upend portrayals of Africa.

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June 2019
Autocorrect
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Autocorrect

How advances in real-time fact-checking might improve our politics

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June 2019
Eat Food. All The Time. Mostly Junk.
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Eat Food. All The Time. Mostly Junk.

How the “food revolution” turned us into snackers, guaranteeing the demise of healthy home cooking

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June 2019
Liberalism's Last Stand
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Liberalism's Last Stand

As Viktor Orbán systematically removed all impediments to his autocratic regime, one independent institution stood defiant: a university, in the heart of Budapest, founded by George Soros. The school’s survival became a test of liberalism’s ability to beat back its new ideological foe—in Hungary and beyond.

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June 2019
To Save The Church, Dismantle The Priesthood
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To Save The Church, Dismantle The Priesthood

Catholics must detach themselves from the clerical hierarchy— and take the faith back into their own hands.

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June 2019
Don't Worry, It's Just a Phase
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Don't Worry, It's Just a Phase

Imagine a world without the concept of adolescence.

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May 2018
Unicorn Fever
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Unicorn Fever

The mythical creature rises in uncertain times.

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May 2018
Will Disney Kill Off The Movie Theater?
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Will Disney Kill Off The Movie Theater?

In its quest to beat Netix, it might have to.

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May 2018
What Alexa Taught My Father
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What Alexa Taught My Father

Legally blind since age 18, he missed out on the rst digital revolution.

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May 2018
Mrs. Maisel's Secret
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Mrs. Maisel's Secret

Amazon’s hit show is a fantasy of a woman living in two contradictory worlds at once.

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May 2018
Iron Chefs
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Iron Chefs

How automation is transforming the restaurant industry.

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January/February 2018
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The White House Mythmaker

How Arthur Schlesinger Jr.’s heroic vision of American presidents led him, and the country, astray

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November 2017
Why Are We So Angry?
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Why Are We So Angry?

The untold story of how we all got so mad at one another

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January/February 2019
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What Really Killed The Dinosaurs?

A Princeton geologist has endured decades of ridicule for arguing that the fifth extinction was caused not by an asteroid but by a series of colossal volcanic eruptions. Her fight with the asteroid camp may be the nastiest feud in all of science— but she’s reopened a debate that had been considered closed.

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September 2018
The Atlantic

Thanks For The Memories?

For the past 13 years, I’ve given Facebook my photos, my videos, my likes, and untold hours of my time. Sifting through the detritus was amusing and surprising—and weirdly sad.

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September 2018