Month: May 2024

Are Smartphones Driving Our Teens to Depression?

The evidence reveals a more complicated reality than the conventional wisdom would have you believe.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/01/opinion/smartphones-social-media-mental-health-teens.html?smid=em-share

Walter Kirn and the empty politics of defiance

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/05/walter-kirn/678187/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Universities spent years saying that activism is not just welcome but encouraged on their campuses. Students took them at their word.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/05/college-activism-hypocrisy/678262/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

American minds are not ready to think about how fast democracy could disintegrate.

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/05/a-failure-of-imagination-about-trump/678278/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

American minds are not ready to think about how fast democracy could disintegrate.

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/05/a-failure-of-imagination-about-trump/678278/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

The bird-flu panic is getting out of hand.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/05/milk-cant-catch-a-break/678274/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

A new book looks at how white families depleted the resources of the suburbs and left more recent Black and Latino residents “holding the bag.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2024/01/benjamin-herold-disillusioned-suburbs/677229/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Cows Are Just an Environmental Disaster

The environmental data scientist Hannah Ritchie argues that climate technology is increasingly catching up to the world’s enormous need for clean energy and with a few changes, a more sustainable future is in sight.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-hannah-ritchie.html?smid=em-share