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February 22, 2017
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Paid family leave should include dads, too.
Eleanor Krause and Richard Reeves at AEI
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Health and fitness apps might be doing more harm than good.
Hannah Devlin in the Guardian
This is why facts don’t change our minds.
Elizabeth Kolbert in the New Yorker
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