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September 29, 2026
Individual Choices Won’t Fix America’s Public Schools
Nikole Hannah-Jones sent her daughter to a struggling local school and has come to regret it. But personalizing the problem is the wrong approach.
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September 22, 2026
How the Absence of Shame Weakens Democracy
A sense of shame binds us together—and can hold the powerful in check.
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September 15, 2026
Will A.I. Overwrite Our Sense of Shame?
The tech world has long been run by iconoclasts whose ideas about right and wrong are self-consciously different from those of most people.
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September 8, 2026
The Death of Shame Is Tearing Us Apart
Increasingly, people are ignoring social norms in favor of a narrow self-interest. The results are disastrous.
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August 25, 2026
How the Job Market Will Shape the Next Generation
Young people are already discontented. It’s not going to get better anytime soon.
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August 18, 2026
How I Became a Subaru Socialist
By the time Bernie Sanders ran for President, in 2015, I was financially secure. But the previous decade had left a mark.
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August 11, 2026
If A.I. Takes the Jobs of Young People, How Will They React?
The Democratic electorate is already moving left, but that may be nothing compared with what happens when unemployment really starts to rise.
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August 4, 2026
Subaru Socialists and the Great Disappointed
The voters who are determining the future of the Democratic Party.
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July 28, 2026
The Kids Are Kind of Alright
Recently, there has been much hand-wringing about downwardly mobile young adults living with their parents into their twenties or thirties. What’s really going on?
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