President Joe Biden is looking to orient U.S. foreign policy so that it benefits the middle class, @PeterWSJ  reports.

In this week's "Homeroom," @FreireichAbby  and @BPlatzer  advise a parent whose child is spending an average of five or six hours on homework every night:

"In many state legislatures, ideology has triumphed over reality. Republican decisions are being driven not by what happened, but by rage-distorted misperceptions instead," @davidfrum  writes:

"The red pill" was a classic far-right meme. Now regular people are bragging about being "pilled" on everything from truffle oil to Adam Sandler movies, writes @kait_tiffany .

Grown-up shows about middle school arrived at a singular conclusion, @megangarber  writes: The best way to capture puberty’s reality is to embrace its surrealism.

The United States long ago lost sight of what it was doing in Afghanistan, @wesleysmorgan  writes in this excerpt from his new book:

Native Americans lived on land that’s now national parks long before the U.S. existed. In a new episode of #TheExperimentPodcast , Ojibwe historian @DavidTreuer  makes a case for giving the parks back.

People generally don’t get happier as they get richer beyond a certain point. But that doesn’t mean that they can’t, @arthurbrooks  writes for this week's "How to Build a Life":

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"The basic problem for Trump is that, despite his best and most nefarious efforts, he is no longer president. He just doesn’t matter that much now," writes @GrahamDavidA :