Kids don't just learn manners from their parents. They learn manipulation, criticism and bullying, too.
If you and your spouse model kindness and teamwork instead, your children are more likely to do the same.
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Despite criticizing universities as elitist and woke, Republicans in Congress sponsored millions more in targeted funding for colleges than Democrats from 2021 to 2023.
Republicans were more likely to earmark funds to whiter, wealthier schools.
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American millionaires’ favorite new sport may be buying European soccer clubs. More than 40 teams across Europe now have U.S. owners.
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As the World Cup kicks off next week, a reminder that the name "soccer" isn't some American invention.
The British coined the term more than a century ago — and used it proudly for decades before deciding to hate it.
The Fed cut interest rates. So why are mortgage rates still high?
A finance professor explains why home loan costs are driven more by investors' expectations about inflation and government borrowing than by the Federal Reserve itself.
AI safety rules are supposed to make technology safer for people. But in the wrong hands, those same rules can be used to pressure companies into building systems that serve the state rather than the public.
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Everyone who gets Social Security faces a 22% cut in benefits in six years, unless Congress acts.
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Wait ... are bison wildlife or livestock? 🦬
It sounds like a simple question, but it’s not. And the answer is shaping a major fight over conservation, grazing rights and the future of bison restoration in the American West.
Who seems “more American”: Lucy Liu or Kate Winslet?
Psychology studies show many Americans (including kids) say the white British actress.
Bias runs deep.
An ancient Greek virtue called ‘sophrosyne’ – sound-mindedness, moderation, self-knowledge – might be exactly what we need to navigate today’s world of AI, social media and misinformation. A philosopher looks at why it’s needed now more than ever:
Democrats tend to give less than Republicans when it comes to earmarked funding for universities – but they give more to minority-serving institutions.
The US and other countries have a legal definition of citizenship, yet human psychology and identity politics result in ingrained biases over who truly belongs.
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For the Greeks, sophrosyne was an ideal second to none. It’s just as important today, in an age of internet addiction and misinformation – but harder to come by.
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Authoritarian governments, including the Trump administration, are reorienting AI safety provisions away from protecting the public toward coercing support for the regime.
