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As Liza Mundy pointed out last month, same-sex couples have much to teach straights about how to have a happier marriage. "From sex to fighting, from child-rearing to chores, they must hammer out every last detail of domestic life without falling back ...

A law already exists to fight trolls — the America Invents Act, among other consumer protections — and they sit "largely unused," according to The New Yorker's Tim Wu. The laws remain unenforced, he argues, because fearful of coming out against ...

In her cover story for the latest issue of The Atlantic, Liza Mundy considers what heterosexual couples can learn from gay couples in light of the fact that gay marriages are happier on a variety of metrics than straight ones. One potential source of ...

For proof, see the demoralizing report released this week by Stephen Burd of the New America Foundation on the state of financial aid in higher ed. It documents the obscene prices some of the poorest undergraduates are asked to pay at hundreds of ...

As Columbia professor Tim Wu recently argued in The New Republic, "The unfortunate fact is that extreme abundance--like extreme scarcity, but in different ways--can make humans miserable." There were so many options for getting from Point A to Point B, ...

... to come and still have money left over. Those additional revenues could be used to expand Social Security benefits through a guaranteed, fixed pension, as recommended by Michael Lind, Joshua Freeman, and Steven Hill of the New America Foundation.

In May 2011, New York's Gabriel Sherman reported that two months earlier, Ailes was trying to figure out "how to stage-manage Beck's departure from Fox," given that talks were "simultaneously a negotiation and a therapy session." Beck had said he didn ...