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Hammer Time: Destroy Your Phone Habit—or Your Phone
In the ’90s I frequented a long-gone cafe where an elder busser would advise, apropos of nothing, that the...
Future Perfect: Black, White and Read All Over
I have spent my entire career weathering the vicissitudes of the media game—from classified ad-eating Craigslist in the early...
Visualizing Reform: Preparing for Post-Scandal America
After several decades of gross misbehavior on the parts of three branches of government, the American people appear to...
Why the U.S.-Iran Talks Failed
The first face-to-face high-level talks between the U.S. and Iran since 1979 have ended without agreement. Hardly surprising; both...
Upside Down: Calls Growing to Remove Trump
We are living in an Upside Down moment, and the danger is no longer metaphorical. You don’t need to...
Momentum: What’s Next for the No Kings Movement?
It was the largest protest in U.S. history. More than 3,300 rallies in all 50 states and more on...
The Foolest Month, Celebrating Our Humanity
Given our publication date for this edition, I’ll admit I had some dastardly April Fool’s Day plans—like printing definitive...
