Letters
Letters: March 2026
Readers respond to recent articles on artificial intelligence, the fracturing center, and the sleep deprivation crisis.
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Readers respond to recent articles on artificial intelligence, the fracturing center, and the sleep deprivation crisis.
We are the most connected generation in human history. We are also the loneliest. These two facts are not in tension — they are the same fact.
When people cannot afford to live near where they work, near where they grew up, or near the people they love, the social fabric tears. The housing shortage has costs that cost-of-living statistics don't capture.
Americans have never been more socially isolated, and every proposed solution misunderstands the problem. What loneliness is actually telling us about modern life.