This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. No corporation looms as large over the American economy as Walmart. It is both the country’s biggest private employer, known for low pay, and its biggest retailer, known for low prices. In that sense, its…

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Search Find anything you save across the site in your account American Chronicles Its inhabitants are as much creatures of state power and industrial capitalism as their city-dwelling counterparts. Oc

The limits of myth-making are apparent in Walter Isaacson’s new biography. Illustration by William Joel / The Verge The trouble began days before the biography was even published. CNN had a story summ

Cover illustration: iStock / Credit: zimmytws Last week, I published a long piece outlining my empirical, historical, and normative critique of what I call the “polarization” dogma: a narrative that d

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photo cred: my dad My latest paper, The Illusion of Moral Decline, was published in Nature today.1 I’m proud of this project. It was my PhD dissertation, and some of the ideas in the paper have been p

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This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? . When ChatGPT was released to the world in November, most of us marveled

There are moments—admittedly, not my finest and full of appreciation—where I regret the life I’ve lived and long for other lives I could have had. In my unlived life, instead of interviewing novelists

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We have a crisis of lopsided political polarization in the United States. There are fewer moderates than ever in the Republican Congress. Republican Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell has thrown o

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