Ranked #1
20 Years Ago Today, the Death of JFK, Jr., Extinguished the Last Flames of Camelot
20 Years Ago Today, the Death of JFK, Jr., Extinguished the Last Flames of Camelot
From the moment that Jackie Kennedy branded the Kennedy presidency as Camelot, in an interview with author and historian... Read more
17 Jul 2019
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20mins
Ranked #2
How Women are Changing American Politics
How Women are Changing American Politics
Our founders devised a political system that was inherently difficult to change. They saw almost every aspect of the des... Read more
4 Sep 2019
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22mins
Ranked #3
If Democracy Requires Critical Thinking, Are We Doomed?
If Democracy Requires Critical Thinking, Are We Doomed?
Ukraine just elected a comedian as its president. A reality TV character holds the most powerful office on the planet. T... Read more
29 Apr 2019
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31mins
Ranked #4
Why Most Health Care is Barking Up the Wrong Tree
Why Most Health Care is Barking Up the Wrong Tree
Some of you may have seen the story that owning a dog gave you a 27% chance of living longer. Some of that was related t... Read more
30 Dec 2019
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22mins
Ranked #5
Why Quantum Mechanics Matter and Why You Should Care: A Conversation with Sean Carroll
Why Quantum Mechanics Matter and Why You Should Care: A Conversation with Sean Carroll
The great screenwriter William Goldman once said of Hollywood that nobody knows anything. The physicist Richard Feynman ... Read more
13 Dec 2019
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19mins
Ranked #6
Only Whistleblowers Can Save Democracy
Only Whistleblowers Can Save Democracy
Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, Coleen Rowley, and the whistleblower who let us know about the Ukraine call, are just a... Read more
12 Nov 2019
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24mins
Ranked #7
According to the World Health Organization, Superbugs are a Greater Health Threat Than Climate Change
According to the World Health Organization, Superbugs are a Greater Health Threat Than Climate Change
Sometimes the personal is professional. It’s not all that common when ones work and one's survival is linked so inexorab... Read more
22 Apr 2019
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24mins
Ranked #8
Something to Think About As You Eat that Holiday Steak........
Something to Think About As You Eat that Holiday Steak........
It’s long been an adage that what we eat, defines who we are. That’s never been truer than in our polarized world today ... Read more
24 Dec 2019
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23mins
Ranked #9
Brave, Not Perfect
Brave, Not Perfect
A couple of years ago, Senator Elizabeth Warren made headlines with the phrase “nevertheless she persisted.” Sheryl Sand... Read more
25 Mar 2019
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17mins
Ranked #10
Can America's Military Ever Recover?
Can America's Military Ever Recover?
We all know that whether it’s a child’s toy or a powerful institution if something is built solid, misuse or the inflict... Read more
19 Dec 2019
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25mins
Ranked #11
How Our Lives Are Being Run By Algorithms: From the 737 to Our Daily Commute
How Our Lives Are Being Run By Algorithms: From the 737 to Our Daily Commute
When Hal asked Astronaut David Bowman to “open the pod bay doors,” it was as if our most primal fear of machines came ru... Read more
21 Mar 2019
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18mins
Ranked #12
William Greider R.I.P.
William Greider R.I.P.
William Greider always knew that the chickens would come home to roost. Over many conversations, since 1997, he seemed t... Read more
27 Dec 2019
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24mins
Ranked #13
Kickstarting a Better World
Kickstarting a Better World
The great playwright Arthur Miller once wrote that too often “we know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”... Read more
26 Nov 2019
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27mins
Ranked #14
What Happens to Ancestry Testing DNA?
What Happens to Ancestry Testing DNA?
It’s no surprise that many fear technology is out of control. AI, facial recognition and robotics are the stuff of scien... Read more
9 Dec 2019
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18mins
Ranked #15
The GOP's Strategy To Embrace Racism
The GOP's Strategy To Embrace Racism
Once upon a time the South was a solid Democratic block of votes. Many of those segregationist senators that Joe Biden r... Read more
7 Aug 2019
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27mins
Ranked #16
Who We Connect With Impacts Who We Become, and Who We Become Impacts Who We Connect With
Who We Connect With Impacts Who We Become, and Who We Become Impacts Who We Connect With
Several years ago, the tech company Cisco ran an ad campaign talking about the “human network.” It tried to humanize the... Read more
31 Mar 2019
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18mins
Ranked #17
A 2019 Way To Look At and Talk To Kids About Race
A 2019 Way To Look At and Talk To Kids About Race
It’s clear that like it or not, race will once again be the issue of our time. You’d think by now, we would at least the... Read more
24 Jul 2019
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21mins
Ranked #18
Do You Need Further Reminders that This Is Not Your Father's Workplace
Do You Need Further Reminders that This Is Not Your Father's Workplace
The Harvey Weinstein trial, which begins this week, while perhaps extreme in its nature, reminds us of the realities of ... Read more
6 Jan 2020
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21mins
Ranked #19
The Brave New World of Immunotherapy
The Brave New World of Immunotherapy
It’s hard to believe today, but leaching was once considered a legitimate and effective medical practice. Years from now... Read more
31 Mar 2019
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24mins
Ranked #20
From Useful Idiot to Working Asset
From Useful Idiot to Working Asset
Perhaps our greatest spy novelist of the cold war, John le Carré, talks about what he sees as the appetite for superpowe... Read more
18 Dec 2019
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30mins