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One of the unmentioned causes of division in much of our culture happens because of the shift in expectations and rules when we begin to live in ...

Living indoors, connected to a screen, it’s easy for the months and years to blur together.The seasons used to matter more.But for ...

If you’re a writer, it probably doesn’t pay to chop down trees and make your own paper, or even to set up a little machine shop to make your own ...

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The Brookings Institution did a fascinating survey series over the last five years.I have two takeways from this:The first is that ...

Community resources are easy to take for granted.Unevenly distributed, they’re the sort of thing we miss only when they’re gone. Invisible ...

In North America, tipping is an unfair system built into the status quo by law. Restaurants aren’t allowed to easily spread tips around, and as ...

Sooner or later, we benefit from being well-published.Publishing has nothing to do with printing. It’s the act of taking risks to bring a ...