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The MAGA alliance that helped elect Donald Trump is starting to show signs of fracturing. It recently came to a... more
Hanna talks to the creators of an AI project called Future You. She also has a conversation with a future... more
Why should a teenager bother to read a book, when there are so many other demands on their time? We... more
Recently, professors at elite colleges told Atlantic writer Rose Horowitch that their students don’t read whole books anymore. They blamed... more
As Donald Trump returns to the White House, his desire to recast January 6 as a day of “love and... more
Anti-vaccine sentiment is, more or less, as old as vaccines. When Cotton Mather promoted inoculations against smallpox in the 1720s,... more
We warned you last month to “Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula.” In a recent study conducted about consumer products,... more
With all the noise around Donald Trump’s nominees, it’s easy to lose sight of his administration’s bigger plan: placing people... more
We hash out the “Democrats are too woke” theory with New York Rep. Ritchie Torres, who tweeted the day after... more
In the last few months of his campaign, Trump was free and open with his dictatorial impulses, as he talked... more
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