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Light at sea.

By Cameron Stout What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor [and] more unashamed conversation. — Glenn Close Alcoholism, anxiety, and major depression choke my family tree like a dark, twisting vine. My father, a celebrated English professor at UC Berkeley, fought alcohol and depression for decades. In 2008, he
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16 minute read

Most People Actually Agree about Immigration.

It’s about real people — going beyond the rhetoric of the immigration debate.
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There are mountains beyond mountains | Photo by the author
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Inflection point.

By Stout Cortez Disclaimer: This essay contains Wes Anderson spoilers, I guess, and math references, which maybe is triggering (pun intended). It is not intended for audiences who do not appreciate Bruce Springsteen. I’ve been young my entire life.  The most pointless sentence you’ve ever read, perhaps. We’
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Cartoon illustrating unhelpful weight loss advice | @drnadolsky Instagram
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A former fat kid’s take on Ozempic.

By Jeff Fiddler Obesity is not a personal failure, it’s an out-of-control public health crisis. In the U.S., 72% of adults are overweight and 42% are obese, and without intervention, they’re at significantly increased risk of death, heart disease, and more. GLP-1 agonists, like Ozempic and Wegovy,
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Instant Dad, Just Add Daughter.

By Jim Travisano So don't ask yourself at the end of the day if you did everything right. Ask yourself what you learned and how well you loved, then grow from your answer. —L.R. Knost I had just completed a 35-mile bike ride in my beloved Blue
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United Church of Hyde Park, 1448 E 53rd St, in 1978 | Wikimedia Commons
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Stop using Chicago without knowing Chicago.

By Chris Boehm I never realized I grew up in a conservative home until I moved out of it. In 1991, I graduated from Webster High School in Webster, New York — a suburb of Rochester. We weren’t out in the hinterlands, but we were far enough outside of anywhere
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What everyone’s missing about university funding.

By Nick Hayden Introduction. When politicians and pundits talk about pulling federal funding from universities like Columbia and Harvard, they rarely discuss what that cutting federal funding does, or who it actually affects. As a PhD student working on autoimmune disease research, I can tell you: It doesn’t punish
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An Appetite for Nothing.
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An Appetite for Nothing.

By Allison Rowe We exist in a world that glorifies movement. Each beat of advancement, the rhythm of success, urges us onward to constantly pursue the next challenge, the next destination. Each triumph, however great, glows for only a moment before it's consumed by the need for more.
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The author with some new friends in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. | Image: Kristen Buse
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How nerds are curing my depression and saving global public health.

By Kristen Buse In the middle of the pandemic, I was depressed. The heaviness most of us went through was combined with my personal Catholic guilt, triggered by the online leftist screeching to fix every injustice. Or, at least, do something.  But what could I do? I was pursuing a
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My MOHELA Nightmare.
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My MOHELA Nightmare.

By Chelsey Tierney My first student loan, which I took out in 2012 at just seventeen years old, turns thirteen this year. For thirteen years I have carried this student loan. It has followed me through three different schools; a variety of internships, jobs, and cities; and more than one
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The United States Must Preserve Domestic and International Democracy.

By Ian Rosenzweig  I’ve grown up in a divided America. My eighth grade classroom was a battlezone during the 2020 election cycle, when it became normal for peers to cut each other off because their opinions differed. Motivated by both ideology and a desire to preserve my friendships, I
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Michael repping his very own brand Ticket Tellers in the summer of 2018 | Image: Michael Tyler
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Coming of Age in the Shadow of the Spotlight.

By Michael Tyler This essay was originally published on Michael’s blog I Don’t Know, and you can read the original version here. I moved to New York City to pursue acting as a sheltered 25 year old from Colorado and immediately got a job selling tickets to a
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