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What Can Americans Learn from a Norwegian Massacre?
Artist Rashid Johnson Explores Race, Yearning and Escape
How Temporary Blindness Taught Teju Cole To See
Driving While Female
Shadowball
A City of Gates That Do Not Swing Wide
HISTORY
The American Guards Who Kept Saddam Hussein Safe Until His Execution
Shadowball
How “Big Gods” Transformed Human History
How Obsession and Compulsion Powered American Genius
Setting Sandburg’s City of Broad Shoulders to Music
How 18th Century Philosophers Created Our Age of Anger
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A Lovely Day For A Tea Party
The Secret History of Twin Peaks
The Attention Merchants are Getting Inside Your Head
We're Short-Circuiting Our Attentiveness
Are Americans Smart Enough To Vote? (The Answer is No)
You've Been Micro-Targeted
PHILOSOPHY
The Internet Has Made Dying More Miserable
Can Literature Make You More Empathetic?
What If We Forget How to Get Lost?
A Matter of (Bad) Taste
Two Tape Recorders and Twenty Knives
How Does It Feel To Forgive?
POLITICS
How Can Digital Citizens Reclaim Their Voices Online?
Driving While Female
The Fury And The Calm of Harvey Milk’s Memory
A Lovely Day For A Tea Party
Addicted to Indignation
How 18th Century Philosophers Created Our Age of Anger
RELIGION
The Ultimate Long-Distance Race
Making Peace With My Father, With Help From Dante
An Evolutionary Biologist Searches for God
What Bliss Looks Like In Your Brain
Do Chimpanzees Have Spiritual Experiences?
Psychedelics and God
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