Andrea Ellis joins me to discuss the hidden incentives behind wellness influencers, how faith and conspiracy thinking intersect in this space, and how she now advocates for media literacy.

California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey have taken the social media giant to trial in the first bellwether federal case over child harm.

Perhaps the unusual thing is not that some companies give away a significant share of their profits.

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Freedom is good; greed is not

Mobile phone location data suggests California fast-food restaurants cut on-site staffing by about 8 percent after the $20 wage was announced, with reductions starting months before the law took effect.

You might have seen this poster hanging up in your English class:

Abstract. This article examines how the American Medical Association (AMA) helped shape the development of the U.S. health insurance system in the critical

New research finds 28 policies that Left, Center, and Right voters all say would make them more likely to vote for a candidate, revealing common ground beneath America's political divide.

The Lateral Reading Companion walks you through checking whether something is true, the way professional fact-checkers actually do it.

The couple, who died within a few days of each other, provided needed supplies, like socks and wet wipes, to people living on New York City’s streets.

What we can learn from high school English teachers and frontier AI model benchmarking

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The factory farms are trying to keep pigs in cages so they don't have to feed them as much. It's up to us to stop them.

The preprint server is the latest to impose stiff penalties on authors who contribute to AI ‘slop’ — but not everyone is convinced it’s the right approach.

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Academia has become unrooted from pedagogy.

Don’t blame the free speech crowd for Trump’s assaults on free expression.

In an era that prizes passion, “reasonableness” gets caricatured as political cowardice or bloodless neutrality. A new book says it’s exactly what we need.

evidence and argument for a developing world