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And why have so many low-income men stopped looking for work entirely? | Continue reading
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In 1974, John Patterson was abducted by the People’s Liberation Army of Mexico—a group no one had heard of before. The kidnappers wanted $500,000, and insisted that Patterson’s wife deliver the ransom. | Continue reading
A third option is necessary: a way to rent without making someone else rich. | Continue reading
Jeffrey Young’s patients say he helped them like nobody else could, but prosecutors indicted him following a huge painkiller bust. His case offers a unique look at the opioid crisis. | Continue reading
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Economists and policy makers are worried that the Vanguard model of passive investment is hurting markets. | Continue reading
The business owners, real-estate brokers, and service members who rioted acted not out of economic desperation, but out of their belief in their inviolable right to rule. | Continue reading
To understand what went wrong with digital publishing, we need to go back to the fat years of newspaper journalism that preceded it. | Continue reading
When we invented non-fungible tokens, we were trying to protect artists. But tech-world opportunism has struck again. | Continue reading
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In a crowded field of wrongness, one person stands out: Alex Berenson. | Continue reading
In a crowded field of wrongness, one person stands out: Alex Berenson. | Continue reading
The word racism, among others, has become almost maddeningly confusing in current usage. | Continue reading
The author recognized that humiliation is a kind of trauma—and that gentle humor could help neutralize it. | Continue reading
A deadlier and more transmissible variant has taken root, but now we have the tools to stop it if we want. | Continue reading
The only way to give them the space they need might be to seek them out. | Continue reading
mRNA’s story likely will not end with COVID-19: Its potential stretches far beyond this pandemic. | Continue reading
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mRNA’s story likely will not end with COVID-19: Its potential stretches far beyond this pandemic. | Continue reading
From dating to job prospects, a name has remarkable power over the path of its owner's life. | Continue reading
The fall of the Soviet Union left behind a grim legacy of nuclear danger. After 30 years, the last weapons-grade uranium has been eliminated. | Continue reading
Inside NUMTOTs, a Facebook dating group exclusively for people who are really into public transit. | Continue reading
One hundred large vessels are lost every year because the maritime industry won’t apply the lessons of aviation. | Continue reading
The conventional wisdom about how to spot a liar is all wrong. | Continue reading
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The pandemic’s retreat doesn’t necessarily mean life will get easier for people with OCD. | Continue reading
History suggests that corrosive change can be hard to see while it’s happening. | Continue reading
The Ever Given is very big and very stuck. | Continue reading
After Atlanta, their silence is deafening. | Continue reading