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  1. noticing
    Tired of Trying to Be Interesting? Join the Dull Club.Dullness is for these members a bland blanket, a respite from an increasingly oversaturated, overprogrammed, over-whatevered world.
  2. health
    Ten People on Finding Out They Have the Alzheimer’s Gene23andMe can test you for your genetic predisposition to lose your mind. Would you want to know?
  3. ideas
    The Right to Change SexThe moral case for letting trans kids change their bodies.
  4. ideas
    Do Democrats Need to Get Less ‘Globalist?’A new book argues that Democrats must embrace economic nationalism to win back the working class.
  5. ideas
    The Nerd Trying to Turn the GOP PopulistOren Cass’s quest to make Republicans heed the interests of their working-class base.
  6. the media
    Compact Magazine Makes a Strong Case for LiberalismWith enemies like this, liberalism needs no flatterers.
  7. technology
    A Normie’s Guide to Becoming a Crypto PersonHow to (cautiously and skeptically) fall down the rabbit hole.
  8. ideas
    David Graeber’s Possible WorldsThe author of Debt and The Dawn of Everything left behind countless admirers and an abiding belief that society could be changed for the better.
  9. business
    The Soft Sell of HimsCan the health-care brand leverage young men’s anxiety over erections and hair loss into a multibillion-dollar empire?
  10. ideas
    The Delusions of the Radical CentristWhy Michael Lind’s iconoclastic brand of populist politics fails to convince.
  11. ideas
    Social Workers Instead of Police? Denver’s 911 Experiment Is a Promising StartSix months into a pilot program that deploys squads of caregivers in place of cops, there are signs of success.
  12. ideas
    How Fantasy Triumphed Over Reality in American PoliticsThat doesn’t mean that the nation is on the verge of collapse, or even in decline. A new phase of history might be just beginning.
  13. Will ‘Trumpism’ Take Over the GOP?Trump isn’t saying much of substance right now. But that doesn’t mean an infrastructure might not pop up to help him fill in the blanks.