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Our editors have edited seven excellent readings. Spend time taking the time to talk about the risks of trying to raise successful children, shocking trends that affect the job market, the best goals for projects in 2025 and more.


Stop trying to raise successful kids

And start raising a friendly attitude. ((Starting in 2019)

Adam Grant and Allison Sweet Grant

Shocking things are happening in the job market

New logo of AI competition with university graduation

Derek Thompson

The highest goal of the 2025 project will still come

The now-famous white paper has proven to be what the government has done so far and what it may be doing on its way.

David A. Graham

The press issues about Hitler

The reporter accurately reported that Fowler was a "little man" and the whole world was laughing. It doesn't matter.

Author Timothy W. Ryback

Quaker parents are ahead of their time

The principles of religion with a history of nearly 375 years are excellent in modern parenting research.

Gail Cornwall

The consequences of mass zoo massacre

Last year, a fox broke into a bird siege in Washington, D.C., killing 25 flamingos. The zoo refused to let him strike again. ((Starting from 2023)

Ross Andersen

Sociopaths among us and how to avoid them

You are bound to meet a vicious narcissist of the “Dark Triad” type in your life who can be ostensibly attractive. It's better to look for their exact opposite. ((Starting from 2023)

Arthur C. Brooks


The next week

  1. Final destination: DestinyThe Sixth Movie in the Horror Franchise About the Man of Death (Friday in the Theater)
  2. Volume 4 Love, Death and Robotsan animated series containing strange and dark and interesting short stories (premiered on Netflix on Thursday)
  3. Happy EmperorOcean Vuong's novel tells the story of a 19-year-old desperate man who becomes a caretaker for an elderly widow suffering from dementia (Tuesday)

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Illustrations by Paul Spella. Source: Bettmann/Getty.

Mark Twain's Boring Life

By Graeme Wood

Mark Twain, in his last, most pathetic years, is behind the real author of Shakespeare's play, probably Francis Bacon... Francis Bacon... Literary critic Northrop Frye, who refutes Bacon's theory, and despite this, he still leaves himself free to spread the details and does not exude the only image, a unique shape, a free and free exaggerated oneself. "We know nothing about Shakespeare, except for one or two signatures, several addresses, wills, baptism registers and a picture of a man who was obviously an idiot," Fry wrote.

Ron Chernow's Mark Twain There is a similar conclusion on its subject: obviously an idiot and a natural fool.

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