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Is Ultraprocessed Food Really That Bad?
A Harvard professor challenges conventional wisdom.
David Deming on tuition-free public college underwritten by existing funds
David Deming says existing federal higher-education subsidies, if redeployed, could make public colleges free.
Demographic distortions will require eldercare solutions
Can technology coupled with cultural understanding improve the health and wellness of the elderly?
Where teachers thrive, students do
Education policy should focus on schools as a whole, not individual teachers, argues Susan Moore Johnson.
Can perfect equality exist?
Eric Nelson says John Rawls led modern philosophy astray.
Should “acting locally” become a legal mandate?
In combatting climate change, will courts hold that the general welfare trumps local sovereignty?
New addiction risks in the war on smoking
Two public-health veterans warn of new smoking risks, especially for the young.
John Rawls and the remaking of political philosophy
The lasting influence and limitations of John Rawls’s political philosophy
Isaac Kohane studies exceptional responders
Do patients who defeat cancer hold biological secrets?
The short-term investing trap
Long-term investors fall to short-term thinking.
by Jacob Sweet
Exploring the secret lives of cervids
Ecologists aim to understand how deer form their home ranges.