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The field is broken: Why American politics feels unwinnable

Americans increasingly vote like hostages negotiating with fate. Every election is sold as the most important of our lifetime. Every cycle becomes a final...

Problem gambling: Existential crisis or overblown by media?

A wave of U.S. states is considering overhauls to gambling laws and updating regulations meant to protect consumers who exhibit signs of problem gambling....

Keep seniors SAFE: Bill helping avoid slips and falls must be prioritized

One fall can change a life forever. Physical therapists see it all the time. A grandfather misses the bottom step of the front porch while...

America 250: Individualists and communitarians at once

Two kinds of people populated Europe back in the day, a German politician once told me. Most Europeans were dutiful citizens, rule followers, whose...

1776 America wasn’t a Christian supermajority — 1955 was. 2026 is neither

America turns 250 years old this July, and the country it has been telling itself stories about — a Christian nation, founded by a...

Why fewer births doesn’t mean cheaper housing

Los Angeles is shrinking. About 10,000 people are leaving the city every year, and another 50,000 leave the surrounding county. This has been going...

Netflix’s Ladies First is a feminist revenge fantasy in search of a plot

Sacha Baron Cohen’s comedies have always been political. On the surface, they present as bawdy but broadly accessible provocations, such as Borat’s Eastern European...

Stop letting China exploit NASA research

NASA says it explores and innovates “for the benefit of humanity,” but that should not mean the United States explores scientific frontiers on behalf...

Reading (and Misreading) the 14th Amendment

“Subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”  That is the phrase, stuck in the middle of the first sentence of the first section of the 14th Amendment,...

The War of Independence was won by Brits

The American Museum in Bath, England, is one of my favorite places. Housed in a handsome 18th-century manor house, honey-colored like most Cotswold buildings,...
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