Something Has Happened To My Brain

I left social media and now I don't know what I'm supposed to think.

Part of my job as a reporter is to think about how I think. There is—ideally—a gap between me and my thoughts, a place where I can examine why I think what I think, where the information or opinion came from, and what I might be missing. I picture this gap as a kind of no man’s land, a buffer zone between me and my ideas. This week, while working on a p…