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When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

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Having a strong opinion about an issue can make it hard to take in new information about it, or to consider other options when they’re presented. Thankfully, there’s an old rule that can help us avoid ...

Mark Given writes in Review of Biblical Literature, reviewing Christoph Heilig’s book Hidden Criticism? The Methodology and Plausibilityof the Search for a Counter-Imperial Subtext in Paul: I only ...