Joe Pinsker
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Why College Became So Expensive
And what that has meant for America’s middle-class families
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Frederic J. Brown / AFP / Getty Why Dorms Are So Nice Now
Many of today’s students are living in far better-appointed accommodations than now-graying alumni did.
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Kevork Djansezian / Getty Republicans Changed Their Mind About Higher Education Really Quickly
A majority of them no longer think campuses are setting the country on the right course. What happened?
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Tom Stoddart Archive / Getty The Professional Triumph of the Firstborns
Why oldest and only children have better odds of running a company
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Thinkstock / Getty ‘Popular’ Kids Aren’t That Special
They do play a role in setting a school’s norms—but kids’ parents and close friends have more sway.
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Scott Olson / Getty When the Child Parents Love Becomes a Shooter
Many families of killers are left to sort through their confusion and shock as some assume they are to blame.
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Callaghan O'Hare / Reuters Hurry Up and (Pay for My) Leave
There’s new energy behind the movement for paid family and medical leave.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters About That Joe Biden Op-Ed From 1981
During the debates, Kirsten Gillibrand accused the former vice president of disparaging working women. The truth is a little murkier.
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NASA / Reuters What Happens When the World’s Population Stops Growing?
Africa will be the most populous continent. Islam will be the most popular religion. And there are going to be a lot more old people.
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Suzanne Cordeiro / AFP / Getty The Job of Campaigning Is Extremely Family-Unfriendly
But federal guidelines now allow candidates to use campaign funds to pay for child care.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters The Conservative Argument Over Paid Family Leave
Some acknowledge it’d be nice for everyone to have, but think it’s unrealistic.
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China News Service / Getty Has College Gotten Too Easy?
Time spent studying is down, but GPAs are up.
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Danish Siddiqui / Reuters Who Actually Feels Satisfied About Money?
“It’s not just how much you have—it’s what you do with it,” says one researcher who studies money and happiness.
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d3sign / Getty When One Person on a Date Is Just There for the Free Food
“I mean, if it’s dinner, I’m not going to say no, so that I don’t have to go home and cook.”
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Sol de Zuasnabar Brebbia / Getty The Slackification of the American Home
Stretched for time, some households are starting to operate more like businesses.
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Damir Sagolj / Reuters You’re Probably Complaining the Wrong Way
The psychologist Guy Winch’s method for getting people to do things differently
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Illustration by Lucy Jones; Photos courtesy of Joan ... How One Mom Changed Other Parents’ Minds About Their Children’s Sexuality
For nearly 40 years, Paulette Goodman has been helping people accept their LGBTQ children.
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Spencer Platt / Getty How Do Rich Neighborhoods Exist So Close to Poor Ones?
The research of the Harvard economist Raj Chetty shows that the scale of inequality is incredibly small.
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Thomas Damgaard Sabo, Damgaard Photography / Getty How to Respond to Teens’ ‘Emotional Eruptions’
Adolescents’ newly complex feelings are something they often struggle to make sense of.
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artland / Getty The Yale Happiness Class, Distilled
The psychology professor Laurie Santos delivers the “shortest possible crash-course version” of the university’s most popular course ever.
