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How inequality and white identity politics feed each other
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Conservative parties operating in modern democracies face a dilemma: How does a party that represents the interests of moneyed elites win mass support? The ...

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Best of: Jia Tolentino on what happens when life is an endless performance
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The introduction to Jia Tolentino’s Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, hit me hard. In her investigation of how American politics and culture had ...

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Dadding out with Mike Birbiglia
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Mike Birbiglia is one of my favorite comedians. He’s behind the specials. “Thank God for Jokes” and “My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend,” the movies “Sleepwalk With Me” ...

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A rabbi explains how to make sense of suffering
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In this special crossover episode of Vox’s Future Perfect series, The Way Through, Co-host Sean Illing talks to David Wolpe, senior rabbi at Sinai Temple ...

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The crisis in the news
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There’s been a lot of discussion lately — including on this show — of the problems facing national news. Cries of fake news, illiberalism in the ...

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Bryan Stevenson on how America can heal
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What would it take for America to heal? To be the country it claims to be? This is the question that animates Bryan Stevenson’s career. Stevenson is the ...

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What a post-Trump Republican Party might look like
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Five years ago, Oren Cass sat at the center of the Republican Party. Cass is a former management consultant who served as the domestic policy director for the ...

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Free speech, safety, and ‘the letter’
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Last week, Harper’s published an open letter arguing that “the free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming ...

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The frightening fragility of America’s political institutions
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Masha Gessen grew up in the Soviet Union and spent two decades covering the resurgence of totalitarianism in Russia, before being driven from the country by ...

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Can artificial intelligence be emotionally intelligent?
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When we talk about AI, we’re often talking about a very particular, narrow form of intelligence — the sort of analytical competence that can win you games of ...

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