By this September, nearly a third of Americans will live in a state where a doctor can legally prescribe a lethal dose of medication to end a patient's life. Support for the practice is rising fast, the language describing it has been carefully softened for decades, and just north of the border sits a real-world…
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Should Every Child Have a Right to a Phone-Free Childhood?
Two years ago, a psychology professor published a book arguing that smartphones had quietly stolen something essential from an entire generation of children. Today, thirty-five American states restrict phones in schools, an entire nation has banned social media for anyone under sixteen, and grassroots parent…
A man can watch four hours of podcasts a day, absorb a dozen influencers' worth of advice on discipline, purpose, and masculinity, and still go to bed having spoken to no one who actually knows him. That is not a hypothetical. It is, increasingly, the ordinary condition of American manhood, and no algorithm, however well…
It sounds harmless enough to print on a mug. Be yourself. Follow your heart. You are perfect just the way you are. American parents have repeated some version of this phrase to their children for two generations now, and the research on what it actually produced is no longer ambiguous. It did not produce more…
