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The drug problem we ignore
feature In our “censorious’’ public discussions about substance abuse, drinking often gets a pass, said Frank Bruni at The New York Times.
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Best Columns
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Um, uh, what I mean is…
feature What Obama suffers from is the classic “intellectual stammer”—a hesitancy that “signals a brain that is moving so fast the mouth can’t keep up," said Meghan Daum in the Los Angeles Times.
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What teens don’t know about Google
feature Other studies have also shown that students really don’t bother trying to assess the credibility of information found online, said Clive Thompson at Wired.com.
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Laughing off the horrors of prison rape
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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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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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Millions of closeted gay men
feature “What percent of American men are gay?”
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Big Pharma’s health-care extortion
feature The White House has already sold out to Big Pharma, said Robert Reich in Salon.com.
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Steve Jobs’s final moments
feature Just before he closed his eyes for the last time, the man who spent his life in search of beauty looked past those of us at his bedside at something only he could see, said Mona Simpson at The New York Times.
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How kids learn to hate real food
feature Thanks to ConAgra and its pals in Congress, our schoolkids’ right to feast on frozen pizza and fries has been protected, said Kristin Wartman at HuffingtonPost.com.
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Viewpoint: Tom Carson
feature From The American Prospect: “If you wonder who made [liberal] hauteur respectable, try Adlai Stevenson. The most celebrated exchange...
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The truth about ‘secular’ America
feature As America has become more secular in recent decades, “most indicators of moral and social health have gotten better, not worse,” said Steve Chapman at the Chicago Tribune.
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Viewpoint: Michael S. Teitelbaum and Jay M. Winter
feature From The New York Times: “Nearly half of all people now live in countries where women, on average, give birth to fewer than 2.1 babies...
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