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Dog Parks Are Great for People. Too Bad They’re Terrible for Dogs.

For urban dog owners with a live-wire canine bouncing off the apartment walls, an enclosed dog park can feel like…

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Is Fear of Crime a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?

Violent crime — homicides, robberies, gun assaults — has begun to fall from pandemic-era levels. But people are scared. According…

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Legacy Admissions Don’t Work the Way You Think They Do

Just four days after the Supreme Court rejected racial preferences in college admissions, a consortium of Black and Latino interest…

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Overlooked No More: James Sakoda, Whose Wartime Internment Inspired a Social Science Tool

After documenting his experience in Japanese American internment camps, Sakoda helped bring the study of human behavior to the computer…

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A Wealthy ‘Anti-Woke’ Activist Joins the 2024 Presidential Field

Vivek Ramaswamy, 37, has made a name for himself in right-wing circles by opposing corporate efforts to advance political, social…

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The Smartphone and the Sources of Teenager Despair

American teenagers, and especially American teenage girls, are increasingly miserable: more likely to entertain suicidal thoughts and act on them,…

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Meta to Reinstate Trump’s Facebook and Instagram Accounts

Donald Trump had been barred from the social media platforms after the Jan. 6, 2021, storming of the Capitol. Twitter…

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Ron DeSantis Likes His Culture Wars for a Reason

Here’s a question: What does Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida think about Medicare? Medicaid? Social Security? The Affordable Care Act?…

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Why Republican Politicians Still Hate Medicare

The Republicans who now control the House will soon try to slash Social Security and Medicare. They plan to achieve…

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We’re Going to Miss Greed and Cynicism

It’s 2023. What will the new year bring? The answer, of course, is that we don’t know. There are a…

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