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David Leonhardt says that yes, BP had a reputation for cutting safety corners, but we shouldn’t make the mistake of thinking that the rest of us are immune to falling into the same cognitive trap that the oil giant’s executives did. Excerpt: For all the criticism BP executives may deserve, they are far from the…

Today marks nine years since Sharon Astyk and her family moved out to their farm. Mazel tov! Here are her deeply moving thoughts on the anniversary. Excerpt: Both Eric and I, the children of divorce and mobile childhoods, have now lived on this piece of land longer than we have ever lived in any single…

Sad news from the Gore family. Reportedly there was no infidelity involved. After 40 years of marriage, the two had begun to live separate lives. Forty years together, and now this. I remember thinking around the Monica Lewinsky scandal, that the Gores were so very different from the Clintons, whose marriage seemd like a business…

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