The Second Question

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  • No. 2The bill you are afraid to openElectricity is up 37% in five years. On the shame of not being able to afford your own life.
  • No. 3When your family stopped talking about anything elseA third of Americans have ended a relationship over politics. Midterms are eight weeks out.
  • No. 4Ten minutes, twice a dayA workable rule for the news, and why every version of it fails in the first week.
  • No. 5Can we afford to be parents?$25,000 a year for childcare and a fertility rate at an all-time low. The question under the arithmetic.
  • No. 6The phone in your kid’s backpack39 states now ban phones in class. Nine in ten parents still want their child reachable.
  • No. 7Praying for a country you are angry atOn intercession as the discipline that makes contempt impossible to sustain.

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