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A Farm Worker With Avian Flu Means a Rapid Response Is Urgent

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/04/02/opinion/thepoint/avian-flu-cows-outbreak?smid=url-share

 

Trump Is No Savior

It is fitting that the biggest movie in the world this year is the story of a messiah gone wrong.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/31/opinion/donald-trump-dune-savior.html?smid=em-share

What the TikTok Bill Is Really About, According to a Leading Republican

Representative Mike Gallagher on what message a potential ban of TikTok sends to the rest of the world and what he views as the real threat.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/01/opinion/mike-gallagher-tiktok-sale-ban.html?smid=em-share

What the Amazon founder and CEO wants for his empire and himself, and what that means for the rest of us.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/11/what-jeff-bezos-wants/598363/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Limitarianism questions the idea that individual wealth is ever individual.

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2024/04/ingrid-robeyns-limitarianism-makes-case-capping-wealth/677925/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

The environment in which kids grow up today is hostile to human development.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/teen-childhood-smartphone-use-mental-health-effects/677722/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Socializing is a crucial part of growing up. The pandemic brought it to a halt.

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/06/how-quarantine-will-affect-kids-social-development/613381/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

What the Fight Over the Capital One-Discover Merger Misses About Our Terrible Credit Card System

The deal will do nothing to fix policies that exacerbate the wealth gap and help big business get even bigger.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/15/opinion/capital-one-discover-credit-cards-rewards-swipe-fees.html?smid=em-share

Israel Has No Choice but to Fight On

As long as Hamas maintains military power, there is no hope for peace.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/12/opinion/israel-hamas-war-military.html?smid=em-share

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/23/business/jonathan-haidt-smartphones-coddling.html?smid=em-share

 

Read through all of Mr. Haidt’s canon and it can be summed up as a guide to changing yourself

 

·        (“The Happiness Hypothesis,” 2006); changing other people’s minds

·        (“The Righteous Mind,” 2012); changing your own mind (“The Coddling of the American Mind,” 2018); and changing your tech-addicted children

·        (“The Anxious Generation,” on shelves March 26).