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Quote of the week: Jason Gay
feature From The Wall Street Journal: “Remember when golf was going to save Tiger Woods? That was the dubious pop-psych theory last winter ...
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The false benevolence of Mother Nature
feature Our beloved Earth, it turns out, is quite a nasty place, said Drake Bennett in The Boston Globe.
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Quote of the week: Peggy Noonan
feature From The Wall Street Journal: Democracy cannot healthily endure without free and unfettered debate. But knowing where the line is...
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The nanny state’s new intrusion
feature I personally detest tobacco smoke, but anti-smoking crusaders have now gone too far, said William Saletan in Slate.com.
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Quote of the week: Beliefnet founder Steven Waldman
feature From The Wall Street Journal: Nones—Americans who profess no religious affiliation—now make up 15 percent of the population. Given their rapid growth...
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The stolen election in Afghanistan
feature My boss at the U.N., Norwegian diplomat Kai Eide, told me to keep my mouth shut, said Peter Galbraith in The Washington Post, and last week, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon canned me.
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How I outsourced my brain; Only the media thinks Sharpton is a leader; Hating Hillary won’t save the GOP; Censoring the bad news abou
feature How I outsourced my brain; Only the media thinks Sharpton is a leader; Hating Hillary won’t save the GOP; Censoring bad news about global warming
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The hidden benefits of a winning team
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The global plague of tourism
feature Tourism may be most people’s idea of fun—but the world can’t take much more of it, said Elizabeth Becker in The Washington Post.
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The myth of small-town superiority
feature The only snobbery Americans will tolerate is reverse snobbery, said Steve Chapman in Chicago Tribune, which is why Sarah Palin is getting away with trumpeting rural America over urban America.
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Where to flee if Obama wins
feature Where can conservatives go if Barack Obama wins the election? asked Chris Wilson Slate.com. And what if the Democrats win both houses of Congress?
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Gays are leaving their ghettoes; The real problem with electing another Clinton; Is pornography a catalyst of sexual violence?
feature Gay neighborhoods in New York City and San Francisco are slowly dissolving, with straight couples with young children moving in next door to male couples.
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The truth about race and IQ
feature Are blacks, on average, inherently less intelligent than whites? said psychology professor Richard E. Nisbett. That once-discredited notion is again gaining credibility, due to statements by Nobel Prize winner James Watson and a recent series of columns b
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How democracy can literally save lives
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