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The short, troubled reign of the nuclear family has come to an end. But we can replace it with something even better.

To understand Donald Trump, journalists and historians should look closer to home than World War II–era Germany and Italy, said Jamelle Bouie, an opinion columnist at the New York Times. “America has its own homegrown history of what you might describe as fascistic tendencies,” he said. “And those are much more useful grounding points in […]

The N.Y.U. professor Jonathan Haidt became a favourite in Silicon Valley for his work on what he called the “coddling” of young people. Now, he has an idea for fixing Gen Z.

Yale’s Jason Stanley argues that all speech is imbued with subtle meanings. In a Q&A, he discusses the devious — often harmful — ways that speech is used.

The Right is using Palestine to further its assault on higher ed and recruit centrists to its cause.

Nearly 30 years later, this divisive dating manual might still have some relevance.

A Times critic argues that 21st-century culture is likely to be forgotten. But it’s not as bad as it sounds.

With Logic School, Xiaowei Wang hopes to redefine what it means to work in tech.

Times: Is scheduling multiple dates back to back the answer to cutting the small talk?

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