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Editor's letter: The joy of learning
feature Every year in September the same question comes around: Are we doing right by our children?
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Editor's letter: Nourishing blind certitude
feature Today it’s all too easy to self-select a media environment where one's convictions are never challenged.
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Editor's letter: Taxpayers and farm subsidies
feature Taxpayers pony up for a bewildering array of subsidies for U.S. farmers that come to more than $14 billion a year.
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Editor's letter: The legal rights of apes
feature As our Briefing explains this week, there is a growing global movement to extend basic legal rights to the Great Apes.
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Editor's letter: Another sick soul with a gun
feature In the past five years, there’s been a mass shooting every three months. In 2013 alone, there have been five mass shootings.
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Editor's letter: The fight over Obamacare
feature Is health care a commodity or a right?
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Editor's letter: Searching for flexibility
feature Could Congress learn something from a hard-line Islamic theocrat like Iran’s Supreme Leader?
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Editor's letter: Education's fourth "R"
feature Whatever theory of education we adhere to, we’ll be doing the future a big favor if it leaves a little room for random inspiration.
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Editor's letter: We are not yet blind to skin color
feature Successful men—such as justices of the U.S. Supreme Court—like to believe they got to the top without help.
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Editor's letter: Peddling “the view from nowhere”
feature Traditional journalism has its flaws and limitations—but without it, we’d have very few facts, lots of argument, and nothing but point-scoring.
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Editor's letter: The Middle East, reconsidered
feature Events now bring us to a rather unpleasant thought: What if Egypt—and most of the Islamic world—aren’t interested in becoming liberal democracies?
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Editor's letter: Will Weiner, Sanford & Rice survive?
feature This was a good week for marveling at the weird arc of self-destruction, hope, and redemption that characterizes so many public lives in America.
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Editor's letter: “Do-over!”
feature We have now entered the blessed season of the do-over: spring, Easter, Passover, baseball’s Opening Day.
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Editor's letter: A cultural turning point?
feature The statistical evidence is strong that for many young Americans, the thrill of driving a car is gone.
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