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Sure, there are downsides to Norway as well. But if you're telling me Norway can have decent health care and we can't ...

Maybe the best rundown I've seen of everything wrong with the GOP

Geddy!

The UN security council, the IMF, the World Bank and the ILO were conceived as agencies of change – they can be again

(Another one to read when Medium counter resets. Maybe I should just subscribe)

Creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have fine-tuned their satire – and the show is questioning its own place in society more than ever

It's us

We've moved from modernity past postmodernity to outright lying. What can we do next?

Neither Trump nor his Supreme Court pick lack legitimacy. Both are the products of an undemocratic system that enables minority rule.

“The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer. There are many men who feel a kind of twisted pride in cynicism; there are many who confine themselves to criticism of the way others…

The long read: Work has ruled our lives for centuries, and it does so today more than ever. But a new generation of thinkers insists there is an alternative

Bruford's thesis

The leader of a group called the Initiative sees the rise of the far right in Europe, and the election of Donald Trump, as an opportunity of sorts.

Bobby Moynihan explains how they thought of such an offbeat idea.

As Congress prepares to take up tax reform, we looked at 92 companies that pay very low taxes. Their job growth rate was negative.

"It felt like the parts of my brain that contain motivation, energy, and the ability to arrange ideas had been injected with novocaine."

The long read: The headlines have never been worse. But an increasingly influential group of thinkers insists that humankind has never had it so good – and only our pessimism is holding us back

Over the past decade, Utah's toughest cases of homeless people dropped to fewer than 200, from nearly 2,000. Utah's size and support from Mormon leaders are among the reasons for its success.

Thank you, Blondie. And what's left of government oversight.

The culture of empathy I remember growing up during the Great Depression taught us that those who were suffering weren’t lazy or lacking the desire to do better — fate had the potential to slap any of us.

Trump has been paralyzed on healthcare and tax reform, but his administration has been active in eroding safeguards and protections elsewhere

"Paul McCartney gave up some creative liberty by collaborating with John Lennon, but the benefits made up for it." ALSO: "In order to maintain a high capacity for independent action, you have to constantly destroy your existing conceptual system and resynthesize from the constituent parts."

Canadian indie-rock icons Arcade Fire are planning to layoff 400 nonessential members by 2018, due to budgetary cutbacks.

The results surprised skeptics.

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"When Abraham Lincoln was 33 years old, he gave a speech inside a Presbyterian church to a temperance society. His message: The assembled ought to be nicer to drinkers and sellers of alcohol, rather than shunning them, or denouncing them as moral pestilences. Indeed, they ought to use “kindly persuasion,” even if a man’s drunkenness had caused misery to his wife, or left his children hungry and naked with want. For people are never less likely to change, to convert to new ways of thinking or acting, than when it means joining the ranks of their denouncers."

Is empathy a force for good or evil?

Americans overwhelmingly believe that global warming is happening, and that carbon emissions should be scaled back. But fewer are sure that it will harm them personally.

Third party candidates want to be serious contenders, so John Oliver considers them seriously as potential presidents.Connect with Last Week Tonight online.....