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The Arithmetic of Plastic

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A look at the challenges posed by exponential growth curves (and how that applies to the problem of plastics).

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A look at the challenges posed by exponential growth curves (and how that applies to the problem of plastics).

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The Need That Democrats Aren’t Addressing

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Time to renew Kennedy's appeal: "Ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country."

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Time to renew Kennedy's appeal: "Ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country."

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50 Years of Affirmative Action: What Went Right, and What It Got Wrong

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Given continuing racial tensions and disparities, it's worth taking a critical look at past efforts to promote social justice.

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Given continuing racial tensions and disparities, it's worth taking a critical look at past efforts to promote social justice.

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All the Ways Recycling Is Broken — and How to Fix Them

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Good intentions are not enough, if you want to protect the environment you have to come up with plans that really work.

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Good intentions are not enough, if you want to protect the environment you have to come up with plans that really work.

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What Democrats Can Learn From the Left and what the left needs to learn from Democrats.

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A thought-provoking essay on the philosophic debate that divides the "near left" from the "far left."

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A thought-provoking essay on the philosophic debate that divides the "near left" from the "far left."

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The New Science of How to Argue—Constructively

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An exploration of a new word and a new scientific field, "erisology" the much-needed study of constructive debate.

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An exploration of a new word and a new scientific field, "erisology" the much-needed study of constructive debate.

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Conspiracy Without the Theory

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An argument that conspiratorial, "they are out to get us" thinking is becoming even more detached from reality.

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An argument that conspiratorial, "they are out to get us" thinking is becoming even more detached from reality.

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The End of Economics?

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A look at the limits of complicated, but rational economic models and the need to deal with a more complex, nonrational reality.

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A look at the limits of complicated, but rational economic models and the need to deal with a more complex, nonrational reality.

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The Hottest App in China Teaches Citizens About Their Leader — and, Yes, There’s a Test

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China has a 21st-century version of Chairman Mao's Little Red Book. Not surprisingly, it's an app.

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China has a 21st-century version of Chairman Mao's Little Red Book. Not surprisingly, it's an app.

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Imagining a climate-change future, without the dystopia, National Academy of Sciences

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It's hard to persuade people to work together if they don't have an attractive vision of what they are working toward.

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It's hard to persuade people to work together if they don't have an attractive vision of what they are working toward.

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