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Young people are rich and miserable
Is Gen Z's Doordash habit to blame for its economic woes?
9 hrs ago • Jeremiah Johnson
What does a "fair redistricting" even mean?
A recording from Lakshya Jain's live video
May 20 • Lakshya Jain
1:00:13
What libertarians get wrong about freedom
The ideology that thinks it knows everything
May 20 • Matthew Yglesias
Homework shouldn’t be all fun and games
The gamification of school
May 19 • Kelsey Piper
We tested one of the media's favorite economic theories
Stop blaming social media for the vibecession
May 18 • Lakshya Jain
The meritocracy of circadian rhythms
A new study on later start times suggests that some "genetic advantages" are the result of policy choices
May 17 • Jerusalem Demsas and Maibritt Henkel
MAGA loves the deep state now
Republicans hated the FBI until it became Trump’s FBI
May 15 • Kobe Yank-Jacobs
No, Waymos aren't racist
Let's get fake studies out of the conversation about self-driving cars
May 13 • Kelsey Piper
Democrats should fire bad teachers and bad cops
Standing up for workers doesn't mean letting public sector unions undermine public services
May 12 • Nicholas Bagley and Robert Gordon
"Are we kind of being pricks?"
Marblehead’s housing fight reveals the problem with local democracy.
May 11 • Jerusalem Demsas
Originality is overrated
Politicians should worry about being right, instead of being novel
May 10 • Kobe Yank-Jacobs and Jerusalem Demsas
Hantavirus incompetence
We're all sick of pandemics. That's a terrible reason to mishandle outbreaks
May 8 • Kelsey Piper
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