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Anxiety. It’s What’s for Thanksgiving Dinner.

Defuse political tension in your family with one simple question

Author Talks: Why play isn’t just for children

How to sustain a constitutional democracy: the legacy of Judge Gilbert S. Merritt

Eli Merritt: Feeling despair and uncertainty? This Roman Stoic philosopher has some answers

July 1776 Was a Shotgun Wedding

What Made America’s Founders Perpetuate Slavery

Sectional Conflict and Secret Compromise: The Mississippi River Question and the United States Constitution

How martial law made the American Revolution

United by Necessity: How the American Revolution Averted Civil War

Loyalists vs. Patriots and the American Revolution

Eli Merritt on His Book “Disunion Among Ourselves”

Salman Rushdie on “The Eleventh Hour” and free speech

What Women Really Want: To Not Answer Work Emails at 10 p.m.

How to Create a Successful Mindset: The Science of Passion and Perseverance

Girl boss or tradwife? An economist on how a workforce built for men has failed women

Economist Corinne Low on women, work, and the myth of “having it all”

The Threat of Civil War

How to Communicate With Confidence & Ease (From Harvard Business School’s #1 Professor)

The Most Important Career Advice You’ll Ever Hear With Harvard Business School’s #1 Professor

Cas Holman (on being playful)

Skip the productivity hacks—it’s time to prioritize play at work

Why Playing is Good for You, According to Science

I’ve worked with execs at Google, Nike and Disney—here’s the No. 1 ‘overlooked’ skill I teach them

Toy designer Cas Holman on why adults need more playtime

American protest is getting more playful. That doesn’t mean we’re not serious

Nicholas Thompson on how running rewired his brain

How I Learned to Turn Off My Stopwatch and Just Run

CEO Nicholas Thompson on how running helped him find his footing

Nicholas Thompson and the Art of the Run

Why Nicholas Thompson Made a Custom GPT to Run Faster

Why I Run

I Loved Being Social. Then I Started Talking to a Chatbot.

6 ChatGPT Settings You Should Consider Changing

Me + Viv

The Unreasonable Business of Startups

How to rediscover your creativity in 3 simple steps

Sandbox To Boardroom—How Adult Play Transforms Leadership And Mental Health

Skip the productivity hacks—it’s time to prioritize play at work

Why Playing is Good for You, According to Science

Toy designer Cas Holman on why adults need more playtime

What Work Should Be

‘Today Was Fun’: How Bree Groff Is Reclaiming Workdays And Redefining Joy At Work

Hate your job? How to have more fun at work – from ‘thin-slicing’ your joy to expressing your personality

You control hidden markets at work—it’s time to start acting like it

American Commonwealth

EliMerritt.com

Debt ceiling RX

MLK’s prescription for healing hate was embracing ‘agape’

The Constitution must be our ‘political religion’: Remembering Lincoln’s words

Alexander Hamilton would have led the charge to oust Donald Trump

Why demagogues were the Founding Fathers’ greatest fear

Civics 101: Keep Demagogues Out of Democracy

Op-ed: Benjamin Rush’s idea of ‘civic virtue’ is still a prerequisite of true democracy

Trump’s place in history? He is the supreme American demagogue

Democracy’s survival depends on fighting demagogues. The GOP is embracing them

Would the Founders Convict Trump and Bar Him From Office?

Bree Groff- SYP- The Change We are Seeing

Humanity-Centric Work Design: Balancing Humanity and Business Performance

This Is How Good Managers Help Their Teams Deal With Company Changes

How to manage culture through change

Why it’s time to stop saying “my work is my life”

How to start making work more fun

BreeGroff.com

The economist who followed the data and decided to date women

Put yourself first! 10 ways women can get a much better deal at work, home – and beyond

Women’s Earnings Never Really Recover After They Have Children

Can Women Really ‘Have It All?’ A Working Mom and Economist Reveals Why Not

This Economist Crunched the Numbers and Stopped Dating Men

Exhausted And Feeling Like You’re Failing At Work And At Home? Dr. Corinne Low’s ‘Having It All’ Explains You’re Not Alone—and How To Face It

CorinneLow.com

Economist Corinne Low on women, work, and the myth of “having it all”

Bruce Lee Died Young, but He Changed the Look of Movies Forever

Bruce Lee Was an “Anchor Baby”

When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows — Steven Pinker on what drives mobs, manias and crypto booms

Steven Pinker — the problem with ‘common knowledge’

What naked emperors and Super Bowl ads have in common

Nicholas Thompson: ‘My view on journalism is that you shouldn’t create content to please the algorithms’

The CEO of The Atlantic Is Running to Be Like His Father. And to Not Be Like His Father.

Why The Atlantic signed a deal with OpenAI

The Atlantic Envy: What Does It Know That Other Publications Don’t?

The Atlantic CEO on AI’s Double-Edged Sword for Media

A neuroscientist’s guide to banishing stress, self-doubt and loneliness

What the stages of sleep reveal about consciousness

Bored Kids Could Be Better Off—Here’s Why You Should Let It Happen

How I Am Using Psychology to Persuade Russians of the Truth About Ukraine

The Right Way to Talk across Divides

Managing a Polarized Workforce

These 3 Phrases Make Every Conversation Better, According to a Harvard Expert

Receptiveness To Opposing Views: A Make-Or-Break Leadership Soft Skill

How to tackle political polarization — the researchers trying to bridge divides

Relationships 2.0: How To Keep Conflict From Spiraling

The Art of Disagreeing Without Conflict: Navigating the Nuance

JuliaMinson.com

Given Quebec’s past, how do we allay the fears of Muslims?

10 fall biographies you won’t want to miss

30 must-read books for summer

New book ‘Water Mirror Echo’ explores how Bruce Lee’s legacy still shapes Asian America

How Bruce Lee Helped Shape Asian American Culture

Why data, not privacy, is the real danger

We Are All Larry David

Crime Seen

The ‘Geno-Economists’ Say DNA Can Predict Our Chances of Success

The Rip Current

JacobWard.com

The CFO-CMO partnership is the new dynamic duo

Sabaa Quao Becomes Software: The Architect of Enduring Strategy

Sabaa Quao: The Power of 1 Minute

Startups in the Age of AI | Sabaa Quao

When business and creative get remixed

Sabaa Quao (Cossette)

Exploring the mindset of younger generations

Episode 5: Sabaa Quao – Just Watch Me

The Advantage of Creativity in Business

Creativity in the Era of AI

Cossette unveils AI-powered platform with funding from Scale AI

How to Strengthen Your Happiness Muscle

How to Stop Ruminating

How to Stop Dwelling on Your Stress

The Danger of Relying on Anti-Anxiety Drugs

Learning to Focus Without Medication

Articles by Jenny Taitz

DrJennyTaitz.com

How to manage stress in your daily life

Feeling anxious? Try smiling or doing a good deed to snap out of it

Many teens struggle with mental health issues. Here are tips for parents.

NetZeroDay

Command Line with Camille

Using Stem Cells to Cure Autism, Epilepsy & Schizophrenia | Dr. Sergiu Pașca

Groundbreaking Studies Recreate Human Brain Circuits in a Dish

‘The human brain remains the final frontier’

Jane Fonda with a secret of aging well

The thing about ‘ageing gracefully’: whatever you call it, I’ll do it my way

Michelle Khare

YouTuber Michelle Khare’s latest challenge? To win an Emmy

Michelle Khare Is on the 2025 TIME100 Creators List

Indian American YouTuber Michelle Khare took on the internet’s toughest challenges. The Emmys noticed

Future of TV Briefing: A Q&A with Michelle Khare on why YouTube creators are contending for Emmys

224: Emmy contenders

‘Challenge Accepted’ host Michelle Khare on why Emmy consideration is so important

YouTube Stormed TV. Now They Want Its Emmys Too

Fake old man reveals ‘Mission: Impossible’ premiere ruse, earns Tom Cruise’s respect

YouTube Star Michelle Khare Successfully Petitions to Join Primetime Emmys With ‘Challenge Accepted’

No, you’re not fine just the way you are: time to quit your pointless job, become morally ambitious and change the world

Does your job feel pointless? This might be the answer.

In ‘Humankind,’ Rutger Bregman Aims To Convince That Most People Are Good

‘Acts of Kindness Are Really Contagious.’ Historian Rutger Bregman Argues for a New Way of Thinking About Humanity

Are humans innately good? Rutger Bregman thinks so

How to Think Like a Utopian

He Took Down the Elite at Davos. Then He Came for Fox News.

Rutger Bregman Wants to Save Elites From Their Wasted Lives

The School for Moral Ambition

RutgerBregman.com

MollyBurkeOfficial.com

Is The Social Media Generation Transforming Disability Representation?

Blind YouTube star Molly Burke doesn’t want a cure — she wants a voice

Meet Molly Burke, the social media star busting myths about blindness

Molly Burke Recalls Losing Friends at 14 When She Went Blind — and How She Rebuilt Her ‘Confidence’ in an Unexpected Way

Blind Content Creator Molly Burke Discusses Bias In Hiring

Yes, Blind Women Wear Makeup. When Will the Beauty Industry Catch Up?

The ‘Colorblindness’ Trap: How a Civil Rights Ideal Got Hijacked

Nikole Hannah-Jones: Trump is ‘eradicating the enforcement mechanisms for our civil rights’

How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months

NOTES FROM THE EDGE with Jeff Chang

How to Build an AI Assistant for Any Challenge

I Built an AI Career Coach. I’ve Never Had a Better Coach.

One key to earning a higher income: Rich friends in childhood

‘Friending Bias’

The secret to upward mobility: Friends

The Secret to Reclaiming the American Dream

Seattle may have figured out how to get more poor people into better housing

Raj Chetty on social mobility in America

What Gives Poor Kids a Shot at Better Lives? Economists Find an Unexpected Answer

Poor Black Kids Are Doing Better. Poor White Kids Are Doing Worse.

The racial income gap has narrowed for Black Americans, new research shows

Has the Time for Race-Based Policies Passed? Not So Fast

Opportunity Insights

RajChetty.com

Rachel Barr’s Notebook

We’ve Reached A Tipping Point In Early Childhood Education

Invention Opportunity In Early Learning And Development

The Child Care Crisis: Innovations To The Rescue.

How Women Billionaires Are Changing The Face Of Early Childhood Education And Care – And Philanthropy

The Workforce Of Tomorrow Requires A Child Care System Fit For The Future

Relationships Are Key to Kids’ Growth — And They’re in Crisis, Expert Says

The Power of Early Relationships

IsabelleHau.com

Gloves Off with Stephen Marche

@DrRachelBarr

@DrRachelBarr

Brondmo.com

The Dance

Inside Google’s 7-Year Mission to Give AI a Robot Body

Alphabet’s Dream of an ‘Everyday Robot’ Is Just Out of Reach

Inside X’s Mission to Make Robots Boring

Book excerpt: “Empire of AI” by Karen Hao

Inside the story that enraged OpenAI

Hey ChatGPT, Which One of These Is the Real Sam Altman?

‘Empire of AI’ author on OpenAI’s cult of AGI and why Sam Altman tried to discredit her book

‘We’re Definitely Going to Build a Bunker Before We Release AGI’

Journalist Karen Hao discusses her book ‘Empire of AI’

We’re pursing a path of AI development that’s extremely harmful to a lot of people, says Karen Hao

Articles by Karen Hao

Abundance — Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s vision of a post-neoliberal America

Do Democrats Need to Learn How to Build?

Can Democrats Learn to Dream Big Again?

Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson review – make America build again

How Scientists Can Be Good Citizens

WaneekHornMiller.com

MoMA acquires works featured in monumental Adam Pendleton installation

In the Heart of Washington, Adam Pendleton’s Work Demands Deep Thought

Have We Been Thinking About A.D.H.D. All Wrong?

Summer Jobs Program For Poor Youth Saved Lives, Lowered Incarceration in NYC

Attempt To Get More People On Board With Organ Donation Backfires

The Life-and-Death Consequences of Summer Jobs Programs

Women face bias in promotions, raises. What they need to know to ace their year-end review

Mayor de Blasio, Bring Back Summer Jobs

It will take a lot more than diversity training to end racial bias in hiring

Research: How Companies Committed to Diverse Hiring Still Fail

NYC officials promised a summer youth jobs program would make the city safer. Does it work?

How Did You Do? Self-Evaluations Have a Gender Bias

How to revitalize summers for teens and young adults

White Men Are Still Kings of the Job Market. Here’s Proof.

At the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum, art for here, now and beyond

The messy, secretive reality behind OpenAI’s bid to save the world

Lifting the Lid: Inconvenient Truths

AI Hallucinations to Befriending Chatbots: Your Questions Answered

Cleaning Up ChatGPT Takes Heavy Toll on Human Workers

A Moral War for A.I.

The chaos inside OpenAI – Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and existential risk explained

Microsoft’s Hypocrisy on AI

DeepSeek’s Sputnik Moment with Karen Hao

When Chatbots Play Human

KarenDHao.com

Sergiu Pașca has figured out how to watch the human brain develop in real time. Next up: revolutionizing psychiatry.

99Ravens

Alison Wood Brooks on the Science of Conversation

We Need to Talk

The Conversations that Bring Us Closer

“Stereotypes Help People Delegitimize Other People and Ideas They Want to Distance Themselves From”: Michael Premo on Homegrown

Venice-Bound Trump-Era Documentary ‘Homegrown’ Unveils First Clip (EXCLUSIVE)

‘January 6 was just the warm-up’: the film that tracks three Maga extremists storming the Capitol

‘Homegrown’ Review: Documentary Embeds With Trump Supporters Ahead of Jan. 6, to Absorbing Effect

‘Homegrown’ embeds with ‘dynamic’ Trump supporters as they plan Jan. 6

‘A wild day’: Film director recalls being at the January 6th riot after new documentary debut

“Homegrown”: Film Embeds with Proud Boys, Trump Supporters, Before, During & After Insurrection

Homegrown

Storyline

MichaelPremo.com

Expert advice on how to reframe stress, stop an anxiety spiral, and become more resilient

Star Psychologist Adam Grant Says Reading These 3 Books Will Make You Happier in 2025

You have more control over your emotions than you think

Having Big Feelings? Here’s How to ‘Shift’ Them.

Are You Overreacting?

Psychologist Ethan Kross tells Anderson Cooper how to combat anxiety

In a Job Interview, How Much Does Timing Matter?

No, it doesn’t need to be a Zoom

In Entrepreneurial Pitches, Stage Presence Is Everything

How the arts can help you to craft a successful research career

Why saying ‘late bloomer’ is wrong

Why people reward innate talent over hard work

Here’s What We Do and Don’t Know About the Effects of Remote Work

The Key to Attracting Venture Capitalists: Show Passion

‘Boomerasking’ Is a Big, Self-Centered Foul in Conversation

Street Symphony

VijayGupta.com

Why you should talk to more strangers

Why talking to strangers is good for your mental health

Can you apologize too much? Sorry, but read this to find out.

How to Have Difficult Conversations Without Burning Bridges

7 Ways to Get Better at Small Talk—And Why You Should

This 10-second trick immediately makes you a better conversationalist, according to emerging Harvard research.

A Compliment That Really Means Something

Research: Speed Matters When Companies Respond to Social Issues

How to Avoid Awkward Holiday Conversations

Why am I always interrupting people?

How to have the perfect conversation — and why it’s good for you

AlisonWoodBrooks.com

TED Business Podcast

Limitless with Chris Hemsworth: Episode 1 – “Stress-Proof”

Women Are Less Likely to Delegate Than Men—and That Might Hurt Their Careers

Stereotypes Harm Black Lives and Livelihoods, but Research Suggests Ways to Improve Things

Modupe Akinola on why an inclusive company is a powerful one

A Columbia Professor Helps Chris Hemsworth Stress-Proof His Life

ModupeAkinola.com

Khalil Gibran Muhammad

David Yeager at The University of Texas

RetailProphet.com

The Most Interesting Thing in Tech Video Series

Angela Duckworth on Grit and the Importance of Trying New Things

No Stupid Questions

Life’s Work: An Interview with Patti Smith

The five best books to understand AI

Toronto Takes on Silicon Valley to Become AI Startup Hub

Responsible Marketing: Wear Your Ethics On Your Sleeve

Citizens & Scholars Announces Winners of the Youth Civic Solutions Competition

The Princeton Prize in Race Relations: Isabella Hanson

Teen Vogue’s 21 Under 21 2022: The Revolutionary Youth You Need to Know

How This Black Teen’s Poetry Contest Is Rallying Young People Across The U.S. To Use Their Voices For Social Justice

15-Year-Old Poet Hopes Amanda Gorman Inspires More to Write