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  • How to Avoid Becoming a Casualty of Student Loan Debt

    How to Avoid Becoming a Casualty of Student Loan Debt1

    More frequently, college graduates are reporting that student loan debt dictates almost every aspect of their lives, including “jobs, children, marriage, buying a house, and saving for retirement.” Some feel “trapped” and bear crushing guilt for having others cosign on ill-advised loans.  Graduates are suffering not just financially, but physically as well. A recent survey showed that “[m]ore than 61

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  • How To Ask for a Raise

    How To Ask for a Raise0

    Let’s talk about one of the most stressful aspects of professional life: asking for raises. I’ve been on both sides, asking for raises and being asked for raises. It’s a completely normal part of work life, nothing unusual. And yet people are terrified of the entire topic. It causes tremendous stress. It’s not entirely clear

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  • How to Approach Your Friend’s New Baby:  3 Tips for Childless People

    How to Approach Your Friend’s New Baby: 3 Tips for Childless People0

    Visiting a friend who has just given birth can be a daunting experience when you don’t have a child of your own. How do you act? What do you give? What’s polite to say and what isn’t? I have two kids now, but I didn’t give birth till I was over 30 and before that

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  • How to Actually Learn Latin

    How to Actually Learn Latin0

    A growing number of students and adults today are expressing a desire to learn Latin. For over a thousand years, this ancient language was one of the building blocks of Western education. But in recent decades, there has been a concerted effort to remove Latin from curricula in schools across America and Europe.   This

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  • How to Actually ‘Make America Great’

    How to Actually ‘Make America Great’0

    As an angry young man, back in my native England, I thought that the world could be fixed through the power of politics. As a not very angry and not very young man, now living in the United States, I have long since abandoned the belief that politics can fix the world. With this disillusioned

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  • How Three Prior Pandemics Triggered Massive Societal Shifts

    How Three Prior Pandemics Triggered Massive Societal Shifts0

    Before March of this year, few probably thought disease could be a significant driver of human history. Not so anymore. People are beginning to understand that the little changes COVID-19 has already ushered in or accelerated – telemedicine, remote work, social distancing, the death of the handshake, online shopping, the virtual disappearance of cash and

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