TSOU Episode: How to Stop China From Attacking Taiwan
With its global power at a peak and domestic problems mounting, China is likelier than ever before to make good on its threats.
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TSOU Episode: Should College be Free & Student Loans Forgiven?
The editorial board is a group of Opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom. The astronomical level of student debt accrued in the United States is inflicting lasting, generational damage on the lives of millions of Americans.
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TSOU Episode: Russia Digs In and China Steps Up - How Should the U.S. Respond?
SLOVYANKA, Ukraine-American-supplied high-tech rocket launchers have begun arriving on the front line in eastern Ukraine. Already they are shifting the balance of power in the fierce artillery duel being fought with Russian forces, Ukrainian officers say. For more than a month, a Russian field headquarters not far from here was frustratingly beyond the range of Lt.
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TSOU Episode: Unite a Divided America With National Service & Debt
If we Americans listened to one another, perhaps we would recognize how absurd our discourse has become. It is our own fault that political discussions today are hotheaded arguments over whether the hooligans storming the halls of the Capitol were taking a tour or fomenting an insurrection; if we broadened our audiences, perhaps we would see the fallacy of claims that all Republicans are committed to voter suppression and that all Democrats are committed to voter fraud.
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TSOU Episode: Remote Students Stressed - Is Home Schooling a Good Choice?
Using the well-established Challenge Success/Stanford Survey of Adolescent School Experiences, and adding questions specific to the ways in which the Coronavirus pandemic disrupted schools and society, the study measures student well-being and student engagement, two areas critical to healthy adolescence.
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TSOU Episode: Is Biden's Stimulus Package Bad?
WASHINGTON — A year ago, Anique Houpe, a single mother in suburban Atlanta, was working as a letter carrier, running a side business catering picnics and settling into a rent-to-own home in Stone Mountain, Ga., where she thought her boys would flourish in class and excel on the football field.
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TSOU Episode: Businesses Make Big Changes & You Win!
United Parcel Service Inc. is expected to announce Thursday a plan to offer nearly 100,000 of its workers a way to save for emergencies within its 401(k) plan, becoming one of the largest U.S. employers to join a trend that reflects concern over the impact of workers’ financial problems on their ability to retire.
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TSOU Episode: Election Night 2020 - What to Expect?
Pundits are warning that election night in November may turn into election week or even election month. Amid the pandemic, election officials are bracing for a flood of ballots sent by mail, and Americans may need to wait an unusually long time to know for sure who won and by how much.
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TSOU Episode: Europe’s Face-Off With China
Just three years ago, Chinese President Xi Jinping skillfully soothed European sensibilities at the annual gathering of global elites in Davos, Switzerland, as he praised the virtues of multilateralism, free trade and fighting climate change.
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TSOU Episode: Should We Trust The New York Times?
The first time I met A.G. Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times, I tried to hire him. That was back in the heady days of digital media in 2014, and I was at BuzzFeed News, one of a handful of start-ups preparing to sweep aside dying legacy outlets like The Times.
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TSOU Episode:
When Kate’s 13-year-old son took up Minecraft and Fortnite, she did not worry. The video games were hardly Grand Theft Auto — banned in their home because it was too violent — and he played in a room where she could keep an eye on him.
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TSOU Episode: The Beef With Meat Alternatives
A group of vegans are suing Burger King over its meatless alternative, the “Impossible Burger.” They allege that after the restaurant added the plant-based patty to its menu, Burger King “contaminated” those burgers by exposing them to real meat on the grill.
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TSOU Episode: The Hidden Effects of an Aging Population
It’s not just that President Trump is a well-seasoned 73 and his three top Democratic Party challengers are also septuagenarians. The average senator is now almost 63 and the average member of the House nearly 58, making them roughly 20 years older than their average constituent, and nearly a decade older than they were in 1981.
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TSOU Episode: The Hidden Effects of an Aging Population
As 2019 ends, various dictionary publishers are choosing their “Word of the Year,” a term they believe has surged the most in usage and importance. The originator of this practice, the American Dialect Society, makes its choice on Jan. 3
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TSOU Episode: Nonpartisan Solutions to the Issues that Matter
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TSOU Episode: Why Are Small Towns Failing
CLINTON, Ark. — Inside Washington, there’s a sense that this scandal really is different. Even the White House’s memorandum of the phone conversation President Trump had with the Ukrainian president in July makes it clear that Mr. Trump asked a foreign country to help him undermine a political rival.
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TSOU Episode: Why You Should Care About Privacy
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TSOU Episode: Should Kids Do More Chores & Why Are Non-Voters Younger
Children should do chores. That’s a controversial premise, though not everyone will admit it. A few parents will declare outright that their children are “too busy for chores” or that “their job is school.”
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TSOU Episode: For Women Advanced Degrees Equal a Bigger Pay Gap
This year is shaping up to be the first year that women make up the majority of the college-educated labor force, a milestone that is already altering benefits packages offered by companies and one that could influence family sizes in the future.
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TSOU Episode: For Women Advanced Degrees Equal a Bigger Pay Gap
When my daughters were small they had a favorite bit of doggerel that prefigured some early feminist leanings. “Girls go to college to get more knowledge/Boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider,” they would chant at me, and, with more evident passion, at any young males in their vicinity.
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