“First Person Plural”

There’s good evidence that we all have multiple personalities — and that we can use that to understand ourselves and one another better: We used to think that the hard part of the question “How can I be happy?” had to do with nailing down the definition of happy. But it may have more to …

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“Results from Slate’s ‘Choose Your Own Apocalypse’ poll”

Oh, come on! None of those are enough to “destroy America,” even combined. Almost all of them are self-correcting problems: Loose nukes. A nuclear weapon can only be used once, after which it’s gone. If the supposed terrorists had a large supply, they’d be a problem — but without that, all they can do is …

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