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How to Appreciate the Hidden Layers of a Book

Dissident Spotlight: Georgiy Gongadze

How to Actually Save Money and Other Psych Hacks

Dissident Spotlight: Jacques Pauw

Why Intellectuals Align Themselves with Authoritarians

Dissident Spotlight: Jordi Cuixart

How Spiders Fly Like Rockets and Other Mysteries

Dissident Spotlight: Khadija Ismayilova

How Non-Religious People Ground Their Ethics

Dissident Spotlight: Kakwenza Rukirabashaija

What Billionaires, Celebrities, High Performers Have in Common

Dissident Spotlight: Ibn al-Rawandi

When Iran and Afghanistan Were the World's Centers of Learning

Dissident Spotlight: Abdukholil Kholikzoda

How Genes Reach into the Real World

Dissident Spotlight: Marzouka Oummou Hani

How a Neurosurgeon Faced Terminal Cancer

Dissident Spotlight: Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee

Marketers Use These Tricks to Sell Services

Dissident Spotlight: Rodrigo Neto de Faria

Why Some Revolutions Work and Others Don't

Dissident Spotlight: Aron Atabek

How to Trick Ourselves into Acting More Reasonably

Dissident Spotlight: Mazen Latif

Why Exactly Are Books so Important?

Dissident Spotlight: Amina Mansour

How the Great Depression Happened

Dissident Spotlight: Pavel Sheremet

How Dictators Collaborate to Create a Separate World

Dissident Spotlight: Farag Foda

Particles Aren’t Particles and Other Surprises

Dissident Spotlight: Ahmad Waqass Goraya

Is It Ethical To Repeatedly View Someone’s Worst Moments?

Dissident Spotlight: Htun Zaw Win

Free Markets Reward Bad Things, Not Just Good Companies

Dissident Spotlight: María Corina Machado

How Voters Actually Vote - Spoiler, They Vote Unreasonably

Dissident Spotlight: Ilham Tohti

How Evolution and the Scientific Process Work

Dissident Spotlight: Xulhaz Mannan

How to See Through False Love and Faith

Dissident Spotlight: Evan Gershkovich

How to Inspire the Team You Manage

Dissident Spotlight: Mohamed Bouazizi

Catherine the Great's Complicated Legacy

Dissident Spotlight: Carolina Barrero

What If We Were All Cannibals?

Dissident Spotlight: Teesta Setalvad

Rationality is More Than a Buzzword

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Finding Your Idea's Core Will Improve your Thinking

Dissident Spotlight: Salman Rushdie

How to Make Your Ideas Stick

Three Ways to Catch Your Own Wrong Beliefs

Dissident Spotlight: Maria Ressa

What Do We Need Besides Free Speech?

Two Futures for Blockchain Technology

Dissident Spotlight: Victor Herrero

Announcement: Monday Article Time Change

What Blockchain is Really Used For

Great Journalism is also Great Thinking

Dissident Spotlight: Masih Alinejad

This Journalist Founded a Company to Stand up to a Dictator

Three Lessons to Avoid Being Unreasonable

Dissident Spotlight: Peter Biar Ajak

How Foxes Outthink Hedgehogs in a Complicated World

This Seemingly Boring Issue Could Transform Government

Dissident Spotlight: Loujain Al-Hathloul

This Professor Explores What Regulators Are Really Like

Three Tips for Better Thinking from Albert Camus

Dissident Spotlight: Osman Kavala

How Sisyphus Could've Found Joy in Eternal Punishment

Free Premium Post: Most Social Movements Get This Wrong

Dissident Spotlight: Maryam Marof Arwin

How Ideas are Turned into the Engines of Change

How to Spot the Next Asset Bubble Before it Pops

Dissident Spotlight: Alexei Navalny

Why Financial Markets Have Large Booms and Busts

World Memory Champions Hone This Trick to Supercharge Memory

New Column: Weekly Dissident Spotlights

This Journalist Accidentally Became a World Memory Champion

How To See Through Fraudsters

This Magician Spent Decades Busting Con Men

How to Use Backchannels to Create Change

How LBJ Ran the Senate and Made it Work

Our Mental Models of Reality Are Not Reality

What Makes Something Appear to Have Meaning?

Why Dissenting Opinions Are So Important

Financial Speculators Aren't Just Gamblers

Challenge Established Opinion Without Conspiracy Theories

How Caring Too Much About Beauty Led Physicists Astray

How to Protect Freedom of Thought

What Stories Reveal About Oppression

How to Find Meaning in Life Using Awe as a Guide

What Awe Really Is and When Most People Experience It

Acknowledging the World's Messiness Makes the World Clearer

Finding Truth Through Art, Fiction, and Storytelling

How to Question Crowd Wisdom in Real Life

How Groups of People can Make Smart Predictions

Catch Red Flags for Scams, Fads, and Bad Products

Why Stories Sell and How They Spread

How to Apologize, Forgive, or Find a Middle Ground

How to Humanize Wrongdoers without Losing Accountability

How to Evaluate Real Political Polls Quickly and Reliably

How to Tell if a Political Poll is Worth Reading

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