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What to do when you think the world is ending and you can’t do anything

A guide to a good time in the face of death and societal collapse
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Bless our hearts, we just can’t help it.

By Katrina VanHuss I grew up barefoot, with hard calluses. I rode a pony most places, and my ginger skin was sunburned most of each summer. Our Virginia family raised tobacco, chickens, beef cattle, grains, vegetables, and morality.  We were steady churchgoers: Sunday morning for Sunday school and preaching. Sunday
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Antidepressant use requires more nuance than we want to acknowledge.

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U.S. coroner Cyril Wecht (center) in Taipei in 2004 | REUTERS/Simon Kwong SK/TW

How is this my call?

By Stout Cortez Growing up in the Pittsburgh area in the nineties, a child was just expected to know certain things by the time he or she came of voting age.  Obviously, you pick up all the driving stuff. Avoid the highways during rush hour, but if and when you
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Winchester College chapel buttresses, 1980s | Mark Draisey

Louder than Words

What are we teaching our children?
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The AI assistant your family doctor needs?

By Lucas Seuren In just a few years, artificial intelligence (AI) has come to pervade every aspect of our daily lives — whether you’re just searching for something on Google or ordering a self-driving taxi. People are now even using Large Language Models (LLMs) to help with daily interactions
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The little girl posing with a pony, Felicia Lubovitz, would become my mother-in-law. Her immigrant parents came from the Russian Empire — her father from present-day Poland, her mother from B

My People

I had a sense of belonging with the Jewish women and families of New York City.
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Claudia's dad on the day of his police academy graduation | Photo from Claudia Dimuro

Ride

By Claudia Dimuro When I was a kid, maybe around middle school, my dad and I started taking rides. We’d get in the car, drive around for hours and talk about everything and anything. Soon, rides became Rides, its own grown, recognized proper noun. Throughout high school and even
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The I-75/24 Split in Chattanooga, Tennessee, shortly after initial construction was completed | Tennessee State Library and Archives, Wikipedia

In Search of Steinbeck’s America

By Rose Williams This summer, to celebrate the United States of America turning 250, I decided to dedicate myself to better understanding the country I live in. For me, that means adjusting my personal syllabus. Every Fourth of July, I usually read something related to the Founding (and I still
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I’m Afraid My Son is So Bright.

By Keith Raynor My son, Miles, is five years old, and despite many warnings of the dangers of screen time, putting on one of his favorite videos is one of the best ways to get him to sit in one place for an extended period of time. He’s currently
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It’s Not Weird For Independents To Want Representation In Our Own Government

By Stu Strumwasser, author of A Real Collusion Throughout my entire adult life I have identified as a political Independent and always felt like an outsider—although it turns out that I am part of a silent majority.  One experiences a strange combination of discordant emotions — a mixture of vindication
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The author's friends, Jack and Simone, performing at The Southern Cafe and Music Hall in Charlottesville, VA | Photo from Kaitlyn Rubertone

For The Music

By Kaitlyn Rubertone Think about this for a second: if you could do something for the rest of your life and make enough money to financially sustain yourself, what would it be?  When my colleague asked this question to us this summer, the answers varied from running flower shops and
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