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We Have Always Lived with Fearmongers
But we always seem to forget this fact, too
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How Should We Address Our Medical Illiteracy?
Exploring different "tiers" of research quality, to get at the crux of our human concerns
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When the Media Makes Context Harder
On a striking journalistic gap in this weekend's Iranian coverage
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The Perks and Perils of Writing Solo
Three positives, and one abiding worry, in the newsletter life
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The Weaponization of Ancient History
Part 2 of 2: The role of propaganda in our current wars
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War Propaganda and Notions of Civic Duty
Part 1 of 2: The role of propaganda in our current wars
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"Mature Content": When a Show Actually Handles Emotion Well
In a world saturated with superhero stories, it might be easy to overlook Invincible, an adult animated series based on the Image Comics franchise. But…
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Realpolitik, and Other Highly Emotional Responses to the Brutality of War
War does strange things to our emotional vocabulary. One of the strangest is the way it marks out certain feelings as valid, and others as indicative of…
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We Have Always Lived with Extremism
What a mid-century struggle with right-wing politics tells us about myths today
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How We Report on Commodity Futures
Why consumer and market reports about cocoa's price surge miss the point
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On the Conservative Politics Lost to Lunacy
In news cycles shaped around extremism, being pro-democratic means reclaiming a less polarized range of discourse
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March 2024

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