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Whither the Public Union?
In our "Question of the Day" feature for this year's Ideas Special Report, our readers tackle some of the emerging issues that are defining our time.
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In our "Question of the Day" feature for this year's Ideas Special Report, our readers tackle some of the emerging issues that are defining our time.
Why the obsession with our kids’ happiness may be dooming them to unhappy adulthoods. A therapist and mother reports.
Medicine has long decried acupuncture, homeopathy, and the like as dangerous nonsense that preys on the gullible. Again and again, carefully controlled studies have shown alternative medicine to work no better than a placebo. But now many doctors admit th
Advances in brain science are calling into question the volition behind many criminal acts. A leading neuroscientist describes how the foundations of our criminal-justice system are beginning to crumble, and proposes a new way forward for law and order.
Katrina Cottages are a step up from FEMA trailers—so much so that planners are putting them to creative, permanent use
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People think that technology moves fast and culture moves slowly. But that's not always true.
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Changes in the sport and society at large have made the "mid-summer classic" less and less relevant
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An economist would actually call the decision not to sell the ball a completely rational move
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Sudan has been successfully split into two independent countries. Here's why more African nations should divide, secede, splinter, or otherwise scramble the old colonial borders.
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I wrote earlier about what the jobs numbers mean for the 2012 election (hint: they are not good for the current administration). But at some level,…
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Several stories in the genre grapple with what it means for young people to take on adult responsibilities
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In the age of Twitter, everyone can have a voice. But can everyone be heard?
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Iowa's attempt to ban undercover videographers from documenting animal cruelty is merely the latest battle in an ongoing war
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But the political process may turn out to be a national disgrace
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The network effect can sometimes reverse itself when people decide by change of life circumstance or growth or chance that their bonds enable a kind of bondage
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New analysis from the National Endowment for the Arts suggests that creative occupations will experience high growth through 2018. But is this necessarily a good thing for artists?
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Our food policy expert highlights dozens of organizations and resources that can help you change the way America eats
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You can't simply replace the existing labor force with unemployed Americans
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Seven months after the fiscal commission's report, Washington is embroiled in a self-destructive fight over the debt ceiling. What if bipartisanship broke out in D.C.?
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While Americans fixated on this trial, they ignored thousands of other murder cases
Two economists debate whether richer countries are truly more content
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Photo: Biz Stone and Evan Williams, the cofounders of Twitter, prepare for a panel on what's next for the Internet
All photos from AspenShould justices move with popular opinion? One law professor says yes.
Not a big idea but a small one: cheap time pieces
Stanford's Balaji Prabhakar is one of those computer scientists who has become fascinated by the networks of the physical world
