Avery Collins

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Working-Class Americans Want Representation, Too

Weeks before the November midterm elections, Democrats are reminding anyone who will listen this Labor Day of the…

Arthur Brooks: How to Be Happy at College

Right now, all across America, 2.7 million adolescents are abandoning their families to be raised instead by other…

Labor Day 2026

Republicans are likely to take a drubbing in the midterms, when they will feel the rage of working…

Labor Day Is More Essential Than Ever

Two key court decisionsThe Trump regime suffered two major legal defeats on Friday.First, District Judge Indira Talwani in…

I Was a Workaholic. Quitting Changed My Life.

Americans are stressed about work. For some, it’s because the machines might be coming for their jobs. For…

Undaunted

UPDATE: Late Friday afternoon, U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani in Massachusetts granted the challengers’ request for a…

Tom the Dancing Bug

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My Friend Gloria Steinem. Plus. . .

Welcome back to The Weekend Press! Today, Natan Sharansky remembers the book that saved his life in a…

Trump is Running his 2020 Playbook. We Beat Him Then and We Will Again.

When I served as U.S. ambassador in Prague, I had the privilege of getting to know the great…

Cowboy Cookies — Bake ’ Em, Share ’Em

On December 6, 1939, my dad and his parents arrived in New York harbor from Austria, via Genoa.…

Gloria Steinem Understood the Radical Power of Storytelling

Gloria Steinem in Famous Last Words (Netflix) Gloria Steinem, the author, activist, Ms. magazine co-founder, and lifelong champion…

I Typed ‘Block the Merger.’ AI Revised it to ‘Drop Your Opposition.’

On the afternoon of August 20, I visited the website of a shadowy group called Neighbors for Strong…

Meta Will Spend Millions for Teen Therapy. It’s a Mistake.

Early last month, in a courtroom in New Mexico, a judge ordered Meta—owner of Facebook and Instagram—to pay…

I’m a Psychiatrist. Here’s What the Lindsay Clancy Jury Should Have Found.

The judge in the Lindsay Clancy trial declared a mistrial Friday after the jury could not agree whether…

Ancient Wisdom: Age Is No Excuse to Stop Learning

Earlier this summer, after I successfully defended my 350-page dissertation, my adviser shook my hand and said, “Congratulations,…