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“So easy”: Nancy Jo Sales on dating apps and hookup culture

They tell her Tinder sucks, all the while with eyes that never leave the screen, thumbs that never stop swiping. Vanity Fair writer and editor Nancy Jo Sales interviewed dozens of twentysomethings in several states as well as assorted academics and experts for this in-depth September 2015 report on dating apps and hookup culture.

Read it here: Sales, “Tinder and the dawn of ‘the dating apocalypse’”

 

‘Tour of duty’: Sheila Suess Kennedy on a bold plan

Student loan debt in the U.S. is at a record high. What’s more, the levels of civic engagement and civic literacy are shockingly low. In this September 2015 article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Purdue University law and public policy professor Sheila Suess Kennedy proposes a new federal program that would solve both problems at the same time.

Read it here: Kennedy, “A ‘tour of duty’ before college would serve students and the nation”