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Learning to Belong on Land That Isn’t Mine • How a historic compromise shaped Alaska’s public waters
Learning to Belong on Land That Isn’t Mine
How a historic compromise shaped Alaska’s public waters
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January 18, 2026 at 11:43 AM
Learning to Belong on Land That Isn’t Mine • How a historic compromise shaped Alaska’s public waters
How to Make Good-Enough Decisions • Even the “wrong” choice can be better than staying frozen
How to Make Good-Enough Decisions
Even the “wrong” choice can be better than staying frozen
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January 17, 2026 at 11:48 AM
How to Make Good-Enough Decisions • Even the “wrong” choice can be better than staying frozen
How School Choice Reinforces Segregation • Vouchers and charter schools are quietly keeping education separate and unequal
How School Choice Reinforces Segregation
Vouchers and charter schools are quietly keeping education separate and unequal
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January 16, 2026 at 11:47 AM
How School Choice Reinforces Segregation • Vouchers and charter schools are quietly keeping education separate and unequal
Is your zip code your destiny? • How education and economic opportunity became linked to neighborhood
Is your zip code your destiny?
How education and economic opportunity became linked to neighborhood
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January 14, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Is your zip code your destiny? • How education and economic opportunity became linked to neighborhood
Why America’s Homeschool Boom Keeps Growing • How a fringe choice became a mainstream alternative
Why America’s Homeschool Boom Keeps Growing
How a fringe choice became a mainstream alternative
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January 13, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Why America’s Homeschool Boom Keeps Growing • How a fringe choice became a mainstream alternative
The Four-Year Degree Was Built for a Different America • A degree once promised economic security — now it's an expensive gamble
The Four-Year Degree Was Built for a Different America
A degree once promised economic security — now it's an expensive gamble
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January 12, 2026 at 11:47 AM
The Four-Year Degree Was Built for a Different America • A degree once promised economic security — now it's an expensive gamble
The Most Badass Artist in American History • How a war painter inspired a new novel
The Most Badass Artist in American History
How a war painter inspired a new novel
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January 11, 2026 at 11:48 AM
The Most Badass Artist in American History • How a war painter inspired a new novel
The US Didn't Free Venezuela — It Just Changed Management • How an oil-first policy came dressed up as liberation
The US Didn't Free Venezuela — It Just Changed Management
How an oil-first policy came dressed up as liberation
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January 10, 2026 at 2:47 PM
The US Didn't Free Venezuela — It Just Changed Management • How an oil-first policy came dressed up as liberation
Actually, Nobody Wants Venezuelan Oil • My conversation with economist Paul Krugman
Actually, Nobody Wants Venezuelan Oil
My conversation with economist Paul Krugman
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January 9, 2026 at 11:48 AM
Actually, Nobody Wants Venezuelan Oil • My conversation with economist Paul Krugman
How Often Does the US Go After Another Nation's Leader? • The US has run plenty of covert raids. Capturing a sitting president of another country is something else. Here’s where Venezuela fits in the historical record.
How Often Does the US Go After Another Nation's Leader?
The US has run plenty of covert raids. Capturing a sitting president of another country is something else. Here’s where Venezuela fits in the historical record.
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January 8, 2026 at 11:47 AM
How Often Does the US Go After Another Nation's Leader? • The US has run plenty of covert raids. Capturing a sitting president of another country is something else. Here’s where Venezuela fits in the historical record.
When Words Aren’t Speech • AI can generate perfect sentences. The First Amendment is about something else.
When Words Aren’t Speech
AI can generate perfect sentences. The First Amendment is about something else.
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January 7, 2026 at 2:46 PM
When Words Aren’t Speech • AI can generate perfect sentences. The First Amendment is about something else.
My Conversation with Congressman James Clyburn • How a single vote changed the course of history
My Conversation with Congressman James Clyburn
How a single vote changed the course of history
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January 6, 2026 at 11:47 AM
My Conversation with Congressman James Clyburn • How a single vote changed the course of history
The Pentagon Papers • The leak that put truth — and the free press — on trial
The Pentagon Papers
The leak that put truth — and the free press — on trial
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January 5, 2026 at 11:48 AM
The Pentagon Papers • The leak that put truth — and the free press — on trial
The Pursuit of Happiness • American founders thought of happiness quite differently than we do
The Pursuit of Happiness
American founders thought of happiness quite differently than we do
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January 2, 2026 at 11:48 AM
The Pursuit of Happiness • American founders thought of happiness quite differently than we do
The 10 Essays I'd Hand to a Friend • My most-read articles of the year
The 10 Essays I'd Hand to a Friend
My most-read articles of the year
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December 31, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The 10 Essays I'd Hand to a Friend • My most-read articles of the year
The Data Speaks for Itself, and Other Lies You’ve Been Told
The Data Speaks for Itself, and Other Lies You’ve Been Told
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December 30, 2025 at 11:39 AM
The Data Speaks for Itself, and Other Lies You’ve Been Told
Impact After Office • Jimmy Carter did more out of office than he did in the White House
Impact After Office
Jimmy Carter did more out of office than he did in the White House
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December 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Impact After Office • Jimmy Carter did more out of office than he did in the White House
Bong Hits 4 Jesus • The limits of student free speech
Bong Hits 4 Jesus
The limits of student free speech
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December 26, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Bong Hits 4 Jesus • The limits of student free speech
Open if You Need Some Hope • This one's for you if...
Open if You Need Some Hope
This one's for you if...
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December 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Open if You Need Some Hope • This one's for you if...
“That’s Not Journalism, That’s Propaganda” • Steve Vladeck on the Pentagon’s new press rules
“That’s Not Journalism, That’s Propaganda”
Steve Vladeck on the Pentagon’s new press rules
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December 22, 2025 at 11:46 AM
“That’s Not Journalism, That’s Propaganda” • Steve Vladeck on the Pentagon’s new press rules
Restricted Access • Why “protecting people” is actually just controlling them
Restricted Access
Why “protecting people” is actually just controlling them
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December 19, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Restricted Access • Why “protecting people” is actually just controlling them
“The Easy Way or the Hard Way” • Goodfellas at the FCC
“The Easy Way or the Hard Way”
Goodfellas at the FCC
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December 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
“The Easy Way or the Hard Way” • Goodfellas at the FCC
The Story Christian Nationalists Don’t Want You to Know • Black spiritual traditions helped build America—and they’ve always defied a single, state-sanctioned faith.
The Story Christian Nationalists Don’t Want You to Know
Black spiritual traditions helped build America—and they’ve always defied a single, state-sanctioned faith.
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December 17, 2025 at 11:42 AM
The Story Christian Nationalists Don’t Want You to Know • Black spiritual traditions helped build America—and they’ve always defied a single, state-sanctioned faith.