Opinion | The Real Reason Your Groceries Are Getting So Expensive
Grocery-retailer consolidation is damaging our food system, stifling innovation and making everything more expensive.
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Decades-long bet on consciousness ends — and it’s philosopher 1, neuroscientist 0
Christof Koch wagered David Chalmers 25 years ago that researchers would learn how the brain achieves consciousness by now. But the quest continues.
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Who Really Wrote ‘the Pursuit of Happiness’?
The voice of Doctor Johnson, archcritic of the American Revolution, was constantly in mind for the Declaration of Independence’s drafter.
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To Get Happier, Choose to Read This Column
Even if you don’t quite believe you have free will, you’re better off acting as if you do.
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What the Best Places in America Have in Common
And what they reveal about alleviating poverty across the country
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Opinion | A Hidden Currency of Incalculable Worth
We need to start thinking about policies aimed at freeing up time for impoverished families as a form of aid.
John Wick | Food Forward | PBS Food
John Wick helps reverse climate change from the ground up by putting carbon back in soil. Learn more at PBS Food.
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Opinion | Appeasing Donald Trump Won’t Work
A conservative legal argument offers a path to avoid a second term, if only there were the will to take it.
Opinion | Mitt Romney Has It Half Right
Republicans are adept at twisting the Constitution.
What Really Took Down Airbnb
It wasn’t the government; it was the housing market.
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The notion that land is an undertaxed resource — and that this distorts markets in destructive ways — unites libertarians and socialists, has brought business owners together with labor groups and is lauded by economists as a “perfect tax.” And yet despite all that agreement, there are just a handful of examples of this policy in action, and none in America that match the Detroit proposal in scale.
www.nytimes.com
The ‘Georgists’ Are Out There, and They Want to Tax Your Land
Amid a crisis in affordable housing, the century-old ideas of Henry George have gained a new currency.
The CRISPR Era Is Here
The much-hyped technology for editing genes has fulfilled one of its biggest promises.
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Amending the Constitution Is Impossible Until Suddenly It’s Not
Changing America’s founding document may seem prohibitively difficult, but there’s a proven path to getting it done.
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