Category: us culture
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School Debt is Killing America’s Future
Read more: School Debt is Killing America’s FutureOur young people have an impossible choice: Take on a massive, 10+ year debt at the very start of your independent lives, or risk getting stuck in low-paid, insecure employment.
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Living Publicly as a Teenager Online
Read more: Living Publicly as a Teenager OnlineGrowing up online is different than it was 20 years ago. Or is it?
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The Case for Secular Grace
Read more: The Case for Secular GraceGrace is a powerful tool. It’s time we reclaim this term from Bible passages and make it the standard for our secular army.
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Some Words We Lost Down the Back of the Couch
Read more: Some Words We Lost Down the Back of the CouchIf I could give one thing to America, it would be a gift basket of words it has forgotten it ever had.
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Work – it’s Different for Girls
Read more: Work – it’s Different for GirlsI recently had cause to ask Google: “How to stop from crying in meetings.” Never mind how this usually well-adjusted, NTEN Award-winning professional with scads of experience and a healthy ego found herself bawling and typing this search phrase on a trans-bay bus; because it doesn’t matter. What matters is that most of us have…
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The Business Cost of Flu Martyrs
Read more: The Business Cost of Flu MartyrsGoing to work sick, or presenteeism, is costing America about $150 billion a year.
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Recycling our environmental guilt
Read more: Recycling our environmental guiltBetween gulps of G&T, my heartbroken friend is cataloging all the things that are wrong with her freshly ended relationship: his emotional immaturity, her unmet need for stability, and then the kicker: “I can’t commit to someone who doesn’t bloody recycle!” I ask her why. Because his time and energy was worth more to him…
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What your children can teach you about the environment
Read more: What your children can teach you about the environmentIt is natural for you to want the best for your children, and there are few things more important than teaching them about the environment. But what if a child’s view on ecology is exactly what we need?
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In defense of American food
Read more: In defense of American foodFrom the so-called “pink slime” formed into chicken nuggets to spray-on cheese and microwaveable everything, American food gets a bad rep abroad. But there is a lot to love about eating here in the US.
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