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The Filter Question: A Town Hall

Q (a retired teacher, front row): Tasha, regulators are trying to ban certain filters for teenagers on social media — filters that change how their faces look. How do you think about that? I think about it the same way I think about every…

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Day One Memo: On the Matter of Being Heard at Work

To: the Department of Companionship. From: your next President. Re: The teachers of Roanoke, the firefighters of Roanoke, and the broader national pattern of people who do…

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The Smell Is the Policy: A Press Availability

There is a letter circulating — I believe it was addressed to someone named Eric — in which an American citizen explains that they cannot endure another football season due to a…

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On Water, and the Things We Build Where It Used to Be

It is late. The house is quiet in the particular way it gets after nine — the staff have gone home, the phones have stopped, and there is just the lamp and the sound of the…

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The Great Crumble Crisis: A Policy Proposal

Three desserts. One table. A co-op in Northern California has convened a formal competition — crisps, crumbles, cobblers, head to head — and declared that only one may claim…

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