🧠 Curiosity is the New Critical Thinking
Turns out the antidote to doomscrolling isn’t more willpower, it’s a specific set of trainable habits that psychologists and journalists have been quietly refining for decades.
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Getting Better News is a media literacy newsletter from the UNESCO and Walter Cronkite Excellence in Journalism award-winning Getting Better Foundation for people who want to understand the world as it really is - without the noise, outrage, or spin.
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🕊️ Why the World's Faith Data Refuses to Cooperate with Predictions
Every generation seems to declare religion’s obituary, and every generation gets the timeline wrong.
🌉 The Surprising Case for Talking to People Who Disagree Politically
Doomscrolling has convinced a lot of us that discussing politics with someone of a different opinion is basically a contact sport now.
🗽 Building Smarter Citizens and a Stronger Democracy for America 250
America’s 250th birthday, classroom history, and the way we consume news are tightly linked.
🚁 Helicopter Parenting and Creating Healthier Boundaries
Parents are grappling with how closely to guide their kids into college and how tightly to manage their digital lives, but recent data suggests most are searching for balance rather than extremes.
🌵 How to Navigate America's Local News Deserts
Local news is being quietly rewired, with some communities keeping robust coverage while others are left with “ghost” outlets or nothing at all.
🧩 Disconnected Young Men, Job Disruption, and the New Economy
We’re zooming in on a real-time convergence of technology, economics, and democracy, viewed through the lives of young men.
🧠 Teaching Young Minds to Question Screens and Machines
Parents, teachers, and policymakers are all looking at the same screens and devices, yet often reaching very different conclusions about what it means for children.
🚨 When Crime Data Improves, But Fear Does Not
We’re seeing one of the biggest gaps between headlines and reality about how Americans think about crime versus what the numbers actually show.
📡 Beyond the Hype on UFOs and Government Secrets
We’re exploring UFOs, government file dumps, and what careful evidence actually tells us about life beyond Earth.