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Steve Forbes Talks Shop
A hundred years ago, financial columnist B.C. Forbes started an eponymous business magazine.
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November 2017
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Ye Shall Know Them By Their Debt
DONALD TRUMP CERTAINLY knows how to drive the news cycle.
3 min |
December 2017
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Global Trade Is Good For Small-Town Manufacturers
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP is nothing if not a protectionist.
2 min |
December 2017
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Making History Modern
When women bought retro futurism at $4.50 a yard
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December 2017
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The Fragile Generation
BAD POLICY AND PARANOID PARENTING ARE MAKING KIDS TOO SAFE TO SUCCEED.
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December 2017
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The FDA Warms To Vaping
IN JULY, THE Food and Drug Administration(FDA) extended the deadline for e-cigarette manufacturers to seek regulatory approval of their products.
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December 2017
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Congress Passed The First Step Act. What's The Second Step?
In the waning days of the 115th Congress, the first major criminal justice bill in eight years was passed.
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April 2019
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Oh, The Places They'll Go —If You Let Go
An economist’s guide to happier, more relaxed parenting
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June 2019
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When Did We Get So Scared of ‘Screen Time'?
The myth of brain rot from glowing rectangles.
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June 2019
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What It Means To Be A Kid In The 21st Century
Free-range mom Lenore Skenazy talks with sociologist Frank Furedi about what it means to be a kid in the 21st century.
10+ min |
June 2019
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Teen Fiction Twitter Is Eating Its Young
“Cancel Culture” is out of control online.
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June 2019
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Americans Should Impeach Presidents More Often
We don’t do it nearly enough.
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August/September 2017
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The Twilight Of Asset Forfeiture?
2018 WAS A bad year for civil asset forfeiture, the infamous practice by which police can seize property even if the owner is not charged with a crime.
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January 2019
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We Don't Need Soccer Moms - Or Dads, Or Coaches
BETWEEN THE TWO of them, Carlo Celli and Nathan Richardson—both language professors at Bowling Green State University in Ohio—have coached youth soccer for about 30 years.
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October 2018
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Health Care ATE America
In 1960, six years before the start of Medicare and Medicaid, America spent about $27 billion on health care.
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December 2018
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No More Vietnam Syndrome
U.S. FOREIGN POLICY for decades proceeded in the shadow of the failure in Vietnam. Some 58,000 Americans were killed in that war.
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December 2018
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Better, Faster, Cheaper
THE LIVING STANDARDS of Americans have vastly improved during the past 50 years, with the quality of available consumer products steadily rising even as their prices have steeply fallen.
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December 2018
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When The Nanny State Actually Tries To Nanny
ANYTIME YOU HEAR the words “for the safety of our precious children,” grab your little ones and run. Someone who thinks he cares more about your kids than you do is about to make you grovel. If he’s from the government, run faster.
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December 2018
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The Backpage Scandal Isn't What You Think
How indie media entrepreneurs James Larkin and Michael Lacey became the targets of a federal witchhunt
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December 2018
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After Living Abroad, Kids Struggle With American Overparenting
WHEN JEAN PHILLIPSON’S family returned to Fairfax, Virginia, after living in Bolivia, the main thing her 10-year-old son complained about was the bus ride home from school. “He wasn’t allowed to have a pencil out,” says the mom of three, “because it was considered unsafe.”
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February 2019
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Budget Hawks Fly The Coop
Goodbye to Paul Ryan, Jeff Flake, and Mark Sanford.
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February 2019
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Hey, California: Stop Encouraging Building In Fire Zones!
The so-called camp fire in Butte County, California, has led to the deaths of 85 people and destroyed 13,972 homes, making it the deadliest wildfire in the state’s history. Sadly, California law makes it likely that another fire will soon claim that dubious distinction.
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February 2019
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The Case Of The Notorious RBG
Examining the life and legend of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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February 2019
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If We Can't Cut Entitlements, What Can We Do?
Thanks to the overspending of Congress and successive presidential administrations, America’s debt totals $22 trillion, and it is projected to grow faster and larger in the years to come.
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March 2019
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How Not To Build A Jail
The D.C. jail has been a disaster for more than 100 years. Can a new jail avoid the mistakes of the past?
10+ min |
December 2016
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Up Close And Personal With Philadelphia's Heroin Crisis
Journalist Christopher Moraff talks about a better way to report on drug culture in America.
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August/September 2018
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The U.S Needs More Immigrants
Without young workers, the economy can’t grow.
9 min |
August/September 2018
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The Shocking Waste Hidden Inside The $126 Billion Afghan Reconstruction
“Congress has appropriated $126 billion for Afghanistan reconstruction since Fiscal Year 2002,” wrote Special Inspector General John F. Sopko in testimony delivered in May to the Senate Subcommittee on Federal Spending Oversight and Emergency Management.
8 min |
August/September 2018
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The Life And Death Of A Hollywood Blacklist
Sometimes Censorship Is A Public-private Partnership.
10+ min |
August/September 2018
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Bad Ideas Are Spreading Like The Plague
The defeat of measles in the United States was one of the great good news stories of the turn of the millennium.
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