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    Feb 15

    Our food system causes as much as a third of global greenhouse emissions. Unless we make major adjustments to the food we eat and how we produce it, we are in trouble. Watch the final installment of “We’re Cooked,” a 3-part video series.

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    “Black history offers America a chance to see itself as we are not, and as we wish ourselves to be,” writes .

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    How lost and found her love of reading.

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    “Reading had always been a sturdy part of my life,” writes . “But I couldn’t concentrate. My eyes floated on the page like a castaway adrift.”

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    “Neither drought nor Taliban mismanagement fully explain the horror unfolding in Afghanistan,”  writes. 

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    Black history “is not a series of heroics or forgotten contributions,” writes . “It is a different telling of the American story altogether.”

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    “State laws that require tax filings even for incidental work have become a bigger problem since the pandemic began, because more people are working remotely,” writes .

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    “At a time of excruciating social distancing, when quarantine rules separated us from one another, money became a tangible social connector,” writes Viviana Zelizer.

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    Feb 19

    From the family files--terrific article Viviana Zelizer by about the ways that donations and charity brought us closer together through the challenges of the pandemic. Yes, money can connect us--when used in the right ways.

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    “To quote the pseudonymous writer N.S. Lyons, the trucker protests have sharpened a division between ‘Virtuals’ and ‘Practicals,’” writes .

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    Feb 19

    wrote a really nice piece on the odd difficulties of being Christian in a putatively Christian society; as and Kierkegaard convinced me long ago, it's not easy.

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  12. 20 hours ago

    “This is what our politics has become: We’re often just fans of a party — or even a religion — not believers in actual tenets,” writes .

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    Feb 19

    "At a time of excruciating social distancing, when quarantine rules separated us from one another, money became a tangible social connector, bridging the physical gap by allowing us to express concern for intimates & strangers." Wonderful, from V. Zelizer.

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  14. 21 hours ago

    Why were people so generous with their money in the Covid pandemic?

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  15. 21 hours ago

    “Since politics exists to organize fears, a major question for people caught between these two camps is which kind of power seems more frightening,” writes . “The specter of an insurrection or the specter of a digital police state?”

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    24 hours ago

    "It is not hard to be a Christian in America.... But it is hard to live a Christian life"-. Religion's benefits come from practicing it, not just endorsing a label. Prayer, rituals, contemplation all shape our minds. Slogans don't.

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    “Putting the word ‘Jesus’ on a campaign bus is not hard. And it is not an exercise in faith. No one can learn anything about Jesus Christ from that campaign bus,” writes .

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    Feb 19

    Brilliant reflections on pandemic money puzzles by Viviana Zelizer: "...in our bizarre pandemic world, money served as an unexpected social bridge."

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  19. Feb 19

    “There are 24 states that require people who did work in their states to file tax returns no matter how short a time they worked or how little income they earned,” writes .

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    “This year, it’s Canada’s turn to live inside Young’s somewhat dystopian scenario, set in the 2030s but here ahead of schedule,” writes .

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  21. Feb 19

    “The ‘unbecoming’ heroine is a timely reminder that women need not be responsible, self-improving and productive in order to be valued,” write Sarah Hagelin and Gillian Silverman, the authors of “The New Female Antihero.” 

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