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All about Zealandia, the Earth's potential 8th continent
The Explainer The secret continent went undiscovered for over 300 years
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An all-purpose apology
opinion Ready? Bring in the media
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Editor's Letter: Left, right, and nowhere
feature If it’s true we get the media we deserve, what does it say about us that good old reliable, earnest CNN is in a tailspin?
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Editor's Letter: The upside to creative destruction
feature For music fans, there is an upside to creative destruction. On a Woodstock stage recently, I watched a friend stretch her lungs in some of the open space left by the industry’s retreat.
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Editor's Letter: A mosque near the World Trade Center
feature As arguments raged over the location of mosques in New York and around the country, I thought of Jack Morgan and his predetermined ideas about who was responsible for the 1920 Wall Street blast that killed 38 and injured hundreds.
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Editor's Letter: A hunger for heroes
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Editor's Letter: The information consumer
feature May the new year bring us all more wisdom, and not quite so many zettabytes.
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Editor's Letter: Political swordsmanship
feature National politics, always a rough game, has devolved into something meaner, more personal—a blood feud. The primary agenda now is to score points, and to damage the other party whenever possible.
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Editor's Letter: Online ads and precise optimization
feature Marketers are starting to employ a new technology, dubbed real-time bidding, that enables them to target messages based on what we’re doing online at that very moment.
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Editor's Letter: Good cheer for the Fourth
feature With oil menacing our shores and enmity and suspicion tearing at our polity this Fourth, we can all use a story too good to check.
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Editor's Letter: Groping our way forward
feature In moments of distress and panic, it is tempting to succumb to ideologies that promise a single, simple solution to the mess that is the human condition.
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Editor's Letter: Some perspective on the word "mastermind"
feature Why are we calling thugs, zealots, and swindlers masterminds?
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Editor's Letter: Conflict and moral clarity
feature Watching how children play army can be instructive. When I was a kid in Ohio, for example, we didn't want to play Vietnam—we wanted to fight the Nazis.
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Editor's Letter: The Outrage Game
feature It seems that a day doesn’t go by without some offended party demanding an apology for some arguably outrageous slur.
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