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  • 32 Million U.S. Adults are “Functionally Illiterate”… What Does That Even Mean?

    32 Million U.S. Adults are “Functionally Illiterate”… What Does That Even Mean?3

    • August 26, 2015

    In a few of our blog posts we’ve mentioned the statistic that 32 million (1 in 7) adults in the U.S. are considered “functionally illiterate.” There have been some questions about the meaning of this mysterious term “functionally illiterate,” so I have provided something in the way of an explanation below. The most frequently referenced

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  • 300 Christians Killed in Nigerian Christmas Massacres

    300 Christians Killed in Nigerian Christmas Massacres1

    While we were sitting down to Christmas dinner with our loved ones, Islamist militants launched a wave of coordinated attacks against Christian villages in Plateau State in Nigeria’s Middle Belt region. Between the evening of December 23 and Christmas Day morning, the militants killed an estimated 295 Christians across 25 villages in Bokkos and Barkin

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  • 3 Weird Things That Are ‘Triggering’ People This Holiday Season

    3 Weird Things That Are ‘Triggering’ People This Holiday Season0

    The commercialism of Christmas is obvious and, sadly, inevitable. With the grand kickoff that is the ever-ironic Black Friday shop-a-thon, commercial Christmas has a roaring start, a solid middle (built on holiday guilt and anxiety), and an equally grand finish (built on last-minute panic and close-of-holiday depression).   Now, the other evil lens of Christmas

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  • 3 Ways to Stop Overthinking So Damn Much

    3 Ways to Stop Overthinking So Damn Much0

    Have you ever had so much going on in your brain that you wished you could just press a button and suddenly have it all stop? The human mind is prone to overanalyzing every single thing it’s subjected to, leaving many of us drained and exhausted. Are you an overthinker? Chances are good you are.

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  • 3 Ways to Spot an Ideologue

    3 Ways to Spot an Ideologue1

    In 1960, Daniel Bell’s book The End of Ideology was published. In it, he declared what “sensible” people like himself already knew: Ideological commitments are mere barriers to social progress. Incremental improvements in technology, entrepreneurship and new methods of governance, not endless debates between capitalists and socialists, liberals and conservatives, fascists and communists, would mark

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  • 3 Ways to Make the Post-Election World Better

    3 Ways to Make the Post-Election World Better0

    I scanned my sample ballot. The options were less than inspiring. “Surely,” I thought, “there is a better way than this.” Fortunately, there is. Voting isn’t the only way to effect social change—indeed, it isn’t necessarily a very good one given what we know about voter irrationality and the like. Here are three complements to

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