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The Economic Crisis of the Iran War Could Get Very Bad, Very Fast

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Three Reasons to Be a Parent

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How Metrics Make Us Miserable

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Why AI Is 'Not Particularly Good' at Curing Disease (Plus: The Next GLP-1 Boom and Why America Hates Big Pharma)

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Nobody Knows Anything

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Why the Decline of Literacy—and the Rise of Orality—Explains '99% of Everything'

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Why America's AI Discourse Feels So Broken

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The 11 Most Interesting Ideas I Read on Paternity Leave

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The Case For Prayer, Even If You're an Atheist

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The 26 Most Important Ideas For 2026

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How to Sound Like an Expert in Any AI Bubble Debate

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The AI Hypocrisy at the Heart of Trump's Economic Agenda

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Are Young People More Screwed Than Ever? A Visual FAQ

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The Monks in the Casino

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The Democrats' New Formula: The Affordability Theory of Everything

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Artificial Intelligence Could Be the Railroads of the 21st Century. (Yikes.)

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How the Earth Invented Sleep

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Is This the New ‘Scariest Chart in the World’?

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Whose Cup Are You Filling?

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Why AI Is Not a Bubble*

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