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How Phone Bans Became a Campaign Against All Screens
The fight over phones in schools is no longer just about keeping TikTok out of math class. It has become a broader political and
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Look at what you had for lunch today. The plastic film on your sandwich. The cap on your water bottle. The container your leftovers
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Latin America’s new right has mastered the politics of anger. It has learned to campaign against crime, inflation, corruption, cultural change, and “the caste,”
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Europe’s food system is settling into an uncomfortable new normal: stress without a clear end date. Climate change is no longer a distant variable
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