In July 2015, James Parker wrote about the insidious messages tweens pick up from the Disney Channel and Nickelodeon.
The year you were born, Benjamin Spock wrote about why schools should emphasize active learning and empathy for students.
In January 2011, Nicholas Jackson put together a brief history of the Space Shuttle Challenger 25 years after its disastrous explosion in 1986.
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I Know What You Did Last Summer was released in 1997.
In our January/February 2015 issue, Charles Fishman wrote about the oddity of daily life on the station and the value of its continued operation.
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The conflicts and displacements touched off around the world by the attacks have been reverberating for the majority of your life. “This ‘war’ [on terrorism] will never be over,” wrote James Fallows, a few years after the towers fell.
In September 2013, Akash Nikolas wrote about the Academy's continual failure to recognize varied performances by black actresses.
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In December 2012, Noah Berlatsky wrote about Katy Perry's aversion to feminism.
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When 26-year-old Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire, he ignited a tinderbox of protests that continue to roil the Middle East, and kindled the beginnings of democracy in Tunisia.
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