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Jonathan Kaiman: ‘I'M Radioactive'
Journalist Jonathan Kaiman is one of the least famous, least powerful men to be brought down by the #metoo movement. A year later, the fallout continues.
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October 2019
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The Joyful Contrarianism of Gordon Tullock
Meet the Economist who understood Nascar Crashes, the Sale of Indulgences, and the Feeding Habits of Coal Tits.
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October 2019
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Elizabeth Warren's Plans Don't Add Up
The Warren Worldview of Ill-founded Economic Pessimism is Both Bloodless and Moralizing.
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October 2019
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Booze, Profit & Prayer
When Europe’s beer-brewing, liquor-distilling monks combine catholicism and capitalism, the results are delicious.
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January 2019
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Can Algorithms Run Things Better Than Humans?
Welcome to the rise of the algocracy.
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January 2019
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America Needs More Dentists
Too bad we won’t let them come here from overseas.
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January 2019
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Gorsuch Challenges Blank Check For The U.S. Attorney General
In October, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in an important case that asks whether Congress violated Article I, Section 1 of the Constitution by delegating its lawmaking authority to the executive branch.
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January 2019
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Can't Afford A Vacation? Blame The State!
With temperatures rising, your sweet summer getaway is just around the corner—if you can afford one.
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August/September 2017
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Good Neighbors Can Make Good Fences
But when it comes to Mexico, the United States isn’t being very neighborly.
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May 2017
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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.
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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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Giant Ziplock Baggies Full Of Lambs Are Going To Change Everything
IN APRIL, RESEARCHERS announced they had managed to keep several extremely premature lambs alive and growing in artificial wombs.
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August/September 2017
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The Surprisingly Long History Of Private Space Exploration
America returns to its roots, thanks to philanthropists who are literally shooting for the stars.
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August/September 2017
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Neuropsychopharmacologist David Nutt On Alcohol, LSD, and Getting Sacked For His Findings
The British psychiatrist and neuropsychopharmacologist David Nutt had reached arguably the pinnacle of his field as chairman of the government’s Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs.
3 min |
August/September 2017
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Health Care And The Politics Of Disruption
AT THE BEGINNING of May, the insurance giant Aetna announced that it would cease selling health coverage in Obamacare’s insurance exchanges entirely.
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August/September 2017
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The Case For Sanctions Fails At Every Turn
AS PUNDITS DEBATE how much the Trump administration’s penalties have contributed to Venezuela’s economic crisis and as European governments move forward with a plan to trade with Iran in the face of U.S. sanctions reimposed on the Islamic Republic, it’s time for some calm and straight talk about sanctions.
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July 2019
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How To Get Better At Budgets
YOU DON’T HAVE to be an avid consumer of news about the federal government to know that Uncle Sam’s annual budgeting process is a mess.
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July 2019
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Deal With The Devil
Libertarian reformers and authoritarian nationalists battle it out to reshape Brazil.
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July 2019
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Is Redistricting Depriving Women Of Their Voting Rights?
The Supreme Court weighs in.
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April 2019
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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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Don't Be Like The Rainbow Fish
LIKE SO MANY of the best socialist products, Marcus Pfister’s The Rainbow Fish has been a runaway capitalist success.
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June 2019
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Immunize Your Kids Against Intrusive Government
DO I VACCINATE my son? You bet—and not just against the usual motley mix of physical childhood ailments. Almost every day our homeschooling curriculum offers a boost to his immunity against excessive respect for meddlers and control freaks.
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June 2019
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Armless Droid Calls Cops After Being Assaulted By Drunken Man
The future of humanrobot relations is silly and sensible, not sinister.
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July 2017
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The Search For A Place To Toke Up
DENVER HAS A bunch of businesses where you can legally buy marijuana but none where you can legally use it. That is supposed to change under a local ballot initiative approved by voters last fall. But a statewide solution to Colorado’s cannabis consumption conundrum has been derailed by fears of a federal crackdown.
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July 2017
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The Democrats' Dullard Dynasty
As the pendulum swings against the GOP, an exhausted opposition looks to nothingburgers like Chelsea Clinton.
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July 2017
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Are Robots Going to Steal Our Jobs?
Many technologists think so, but economists aren’t so easily convinced.
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July 2017
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Cassandra Of The Crash
An inter view with former Dallas Fed researcher Danielle DiMar tino Booth
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July 2017
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Bringing The Passenger Pigeon Out Of Extinction
Bringing extinct animals back to life is now within our grasp, says Long Now Foundation researcher Ben Novak.
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