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How China Made Its Housing Crisis Worse
Years of inattention to building an adequate safety net for seniors, the jobless and others in financial stress have left…
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News
Dog Parks Are Great for People. Too Bad They’re Terrible for Dogs.
For urban dog owners with a live-wire canine bouncing off the apartment walls, an enclosed dog park can feel like…
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News
Is Fear of Crime a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?
Violent crime — homicides, robberies, gun assaults — has begun to fall from pandemic-era levels. But people are scared. According…
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News
Legacy Admissions Don’t Work the Way You Think They Do
Just four days after the Supreme Court rejected racial preferences in college admissions, a consortium of Black and Latino interest…
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World
Overlooked No More: James Sakoda, Whose Wartime Internment Inspired a Social Science Tool
After documenting his experience in Japanese American internment camps, Sakoda helped bring the study of human behavior to the computer…
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US
A Wealthy ‘Anti-Woke’ Activist Joins the 2024 Presidential Field
Vivek Ramaswamy, 37, has made a name for himself in right-wing circles by opposing corporate efforts to advance political, social…
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The Smartphone and the Sources of Teenager Despair
American teenagers, and especially American teenage girls, are increasingly miserable: more likely to entertain suicidal thoughts and act on them,…
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Business
Meta to Reinstate Trump’s Facebook and Instagram Accounts
Donald Trump had been barred from the social media platforms after the Jan. 6, 2021, storming of the Capitol. Twitter…
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News
Ron DeSantis Likes His Culture Wars for a Reason
Here’s a question: What does Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida think about Medicare? Medicaid? Social Security? The Affordable Care Act?…
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Why Republican Politicians Still Hate Medicare
The Republicans who now control the House will soon try to slash Social Security and Medicare. They plan to achieve…