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Why this economist thinks public education is mostly pointless

By Sean Illing

A feminist makes the case against feminism

By Sean Illing

The biggest lie we still teach in American history classes

By Sean Illing September 14

A Silicon Valley stylist shares her secrets: Allbirds are out, scruff is in, and khakis were never okay

By Chavie Lieber September 14

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Bullshit jobs: why they exist and why you might have one

By Sean Illing September 11

DeRay Mckesson on Trump-era activism: “We can’t just be fighting the people in seats of power”

By Hope Reese September 11

“The fish rots from the head”: a historian on the unique corruption of Trump’s White House

By Sean Illing September 7

Gary Shteyngart on his new book, which explores the self-delusion of Wall Street bankers

By Hope Reese September 6

Race and football: why NFL owners are so scared of Colin Kaepernick

By Sean Illing September 6

Women are running — and winning — in 2018

Brianna Wu survived Gamergate. Now she’s running for Congress.

By Anna North September 4

Why romantic comedies matter

By Alissa Wilkinson, Aja Romano, and 3 others August 29

Why psychedelic drugs could transform how we treat depression and mental illness

By Sean Illing August 25

10 legal experts on why Trump can’t pardon his way out of the Russia investigation

By Sean Illing August 21

The case against empathy

By Sean Illing August 20

Why marriages succeed — or fail

By Sean Illing August 16

The author of Dopesick on how we’re still failing opioid users

By Hope Reese August 14

“They have no allegiance to liberal democracy”: an expert on antifa explains the group

By Sean Illing August 13

Why Buddhism is true

By Sean Illing August 10

Tech companies use “persuasive design” to get us hooked. Psychologists say it’s unethical.

By Chavie Lieber August 8

A Stanford psychologist on the art of avoiding assholes

By Sean Illing August 7

An autopsy of the American dream

By Sean Illing August 6

Why Jeff Sessions thinks Christians are under siege in America

By Christopher Shea August 1

Did the president obstruct justice? I asked 12 legal experts.

By Sean Illing July 27

What a 1963 RFK-James Baldwin meeting teaches us about race in Trump’s America

By Sean Illing July 26

Michiko Kakutani, esteemed book critic, has finally written a book. It’s about Trump.

By Eric Allen Been July 25

Epistocracy: a political theorist’s case for letting only the informed vote

By Sean Illing July 23

A historian surveys the wreckage of the Trump-Putin summit

By Christopher Shea July 21

How the West became a self-obsessed culture

By Sean Illing July 19

Why “fake news” is an antitrust problem

By Sean Illing July 18

Why Trump is an easy mark for Putin

By Sean Illing July 16

A Russian newspaper editor explains how Putin made Trump his puppet

By Sean Illing July 16

Why the myth of a perfect meritocracy is so pernicious

By Sean Illing July 12

“Empathetic hedonism”: why we were so glued to the Thai cave drama

By Brian Resnick July 11

Why you should give a shit about NATO

By Sean Illing July 11

Why you should give a shit about Trump’s tariffs, explained by an economic historian

By Sean Illing July 6

Why capitalism won’t survive without socialism

By Sean Illing July 4

Why the death of democracy may be overhyped

By Sean Illing July 2

A Princeton sociologist spent 8 years asking rural Americans why they’re so pissed off

By Sean Illing June 30

The woman who argued Roe v. Wade on Kennedy retiring: “We thought we had won this”

By Karen Turner June 29

Why this political scientist thinks the Democrats have to fight dirty

By Sean Illing June 29

“Strict constructionism,” the judicial philosophy of Trump’s next SCOTUS pick, explained

By Sean Illing June 28

Philip Zimbardo defends the Stanford Prison Experiment, his most famous work

By Brian Resnick June 28

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