| Will Charlottesville mark a tipping point for the United States? Posted: 13 Aug 2017 01:40 PM PDT ![Will Charlottesville mark a tipping point for the United States?]( "Will Charlottesville mark a tipping point for the United States?") Everyone from the governor of Virginia to his mom and dad were telling Fintan Horan to stay away from this weekend's Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va. "You have people coming here who say they want to incite violence, so as someone who lives in Charlottesville – you know, this is my back yard … how can I not [get involved]?" says Mr. Horan, a computer science student at the University of Virginia, who lives near where a man, in a possible act of domestic terrorism, was arrested for allegedly plowing his car into a crowd of people, killing one woman and injuring 19. Horan, who joined a counter-protest Saturday, is far from the only one to have been thrust into the middle of the boldest show of violent white supremacy in the United States in generations.
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| Can you please talk, not text? Parenting the Instagram generation Posted: 13 Aug 2017 09:00 AM PDT ![Can you please talk, not text? Parenting the Instagram generation]( "Can you please talk, not text? Parenting the Instagram generation") Jake Lee, a tanned California teenager in baggy shorts and a T-shirt, is lounging on the floor of his parents' midcentury home. "I'm on social media every waking moment of my life," he says, with no particular pride. Equidistant between the headquarters of Apple and Facebook, two of the world's biggest tech companies, the Lee household is something of a petri dish for the way technology has altered American family life.
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