Editor's Letter
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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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Editor's letter: Stumbling forward in Syria
feature The idea that there’s a secret order to the chaos around us may offer comfort, but it takes real creativity to conjure up a grand plot for the events around Syria.
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Editor's letter: Why climate change is inevitable
feature Human beings are lousy at assessing risk, and even worse at making big sacrifices now for future benefits.
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Editor's letter: Electronic cocoons
feature Smartphones have their upside, but city streets are now full of people walking with their heads down.
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Editor's letter: When a bot takes your job
feature Now that computers can write news stories, drive cars, and play chess, we’re all in trouble.
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Editor's letter: Are college athletes employees?
feature The National Labor Relations Board's decision deeming scholarship players “employees” of Northwestern University has many worrying that college sports itself will soon be history.
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Editor's letter: Dealing with the fiscal cliff
feature Lincoln, the new film by Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner, is a timely reminder that sometimes we must cast off our sanctimonies and compromise to get a big job done.
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Editor's letter: Remember silence?
feature Quiet! I don’t care about your irritating boss, and neither do all the other plainly exasperated people sitting around me.
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Editor's letter: Our dysfunctional romance with violence
feature Every year, more than 30,000 people—the equivalent of ten 9/11s—die of gunshot wounds.
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Editor's letter: In the end, Malala will win
feature My daughters are free to go to school, to think for themselves, to decide how they will spend their lives.
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Editor's letter: The snow in Sochi
feature The Winter Olympics are currently being held in a strange simulacrum of winter.
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Editor's letter: Servants of our tools
feature Technology may be giving us more power than we can handle.
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Editor's letter: Reality-deniers extraordinaire
feature Ajit Varki and Danny Brower's intriguing theory of why human beings enjoy an evolutionary advantage over other creatures came to mind as Toronto Mayor Rob Ford admitted to drug use after months of denial.
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