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10 Colleges Where You Won't Have To Walk On Eggshells
These schools are seriously committed to civil and diverse debate.
10+ min |
June 2019
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Why The Wall Won't Work
The Legal, Practical, Economic, and Moral Case Against Trump’s Border Barrier
10+ min |
May 2017
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Drug Smugglers Have Already Beaten Trump's Wall
DURING A SPEECH announcing his intention to seek the presidency, Donald Trump stumbled on what would become a signature issue for his campaign: Mexico.
4 min |
May 2017
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Cops Who Claim They Know When Drivers Are Stoned
Even when blood tests say they’re not
2 min |
January 2018
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Authoritarians To The Left And Right
Authoritarians To The Left And Right
2 min |
January 2018
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Don't Panic Over North Korea
Don't Panic Over North Korea
2 min |
January 2018
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Why It's So Hard To Get Pervs Out Of Politics
POLITICS IS A high-stakes, winner-takes all game with irresistible appeal to a certain kind of low-quality human being. There are typically only two viable candidates in any national race, and voters have a lot invested in the idea that bad things will happen if their guy loses.
5 min |
February 2018
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Toward A Unified Theory Of Stalin, The Teamsters, Alcoholics Anonymous, And Facebook
Toward A Unified Theory Of Stalin, The Teamsters, Alcoholics Anonymous, And Facebook
5 min |
June 2018
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Go Ahead, Put Salt On Your Food
Ignore the feds’ bad advice on diet and nutrition.
2 min |
August/September 2017
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What America Taught A Murderous Drug Warrior
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte follows prohibitionist logic to its lethal conclusion.
3 min |
August/September 2017
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Deportations Up Under Trump
A round-up of immigrant round-ups
4 min |
August/September 2017
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Jane Jacobs, In Her Own Words
The death and life of a great American urbanist
5 min |
August/September 2017
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A Big Freak-Out Over Donald Trump's 'Skinny' Budget
PRESIDENTIAL BUDGETS HAVE all the legal force of a letter to Santa—they’re essentially the White House asking Congress for a pony. The “skinny” blueprint released by the Office of Management and Budget in March is the result of even less consultation and collaboration than usual with the legislators who hold actual budget-making power, which makes wish fulfillment even more unlikely. Nevertheless, when President Donald Trump announced $54 billion in cuts to several federal agencies, the press immediately got to work on its own form of slash fiction, fetishizing the appropriations status quo and moaning over any possibility of budgetary restraint.
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June 2017
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An Economist Goes To Shanghai
LAST OCTOBER, I found myself in an Uber being whisked along a bank of the Huang pu River. I’d just arrived in Shanghai, and several of my students were eager to take me to see the sights. They wanted to show me the Bund (rhymes with fund). That’s the local, Persian-origin name for the promenade on which the Europeans a century ago erected a collection of 50 or so banks, trading companies, and insurance firms: the very heart of pre-Communist capitalism in China. The buildings, especially nice when illuminated at night, are done in 1920s Beaux-Arts or art deco style.
5 min |
June 2017
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The Disappearing Sixth Amendment
YOU HAVE THE right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided to you.
2 min |
June 2017
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How Washington Lost The War On Muscle
Steroid Users Hustle To Stay One Rep Ahead Of The Law.
10+ min |
June 2017
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Republicans Don't Lack A Plan To Replace Obamacare. They Lack A Unified Theory
THERE HAS NEVER been a shortage of gop substitutes for Obamacare, from think tank white papers to congressional committee frameworks to fully drafted bills. But in the seven years that congressional Republicans spent promising to repeal and replace President Obama’s health care law, none ever moved beyond the development phase, because what Republicans lacked wasn’t a plan. It was a theory.
5 min |
June 2017
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Meet Eric July
Your New Favorite Anarcho-Capitalist Christian Rap-Metal Artist
3 min |
June 2017
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Supreme Court Tries To Draw A Line Around Gay Wedding Cakes
IF DECORATING A cake counts as constitutionally protected speech, what doesn’t count? That was the question at stake during Supreme Court oral arguments in Masterpiece Cake shop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission.
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February 2018
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The FCC Takes Its Hands Off The Internet
IN APRIL, AJIT Pai, the newly appointed chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), announced his first major initiative: taking internet regulation back to 2014.
3 min |
February 2018
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Junkyard Blight No More
LIKE OIL-SLICKED SEAGULLS and smokestacks spewing black fumes, piles of rusting cars were standard symbols of environmental blight in the 1960s and early ’70s. “Few of America’s eyesores are so unsightly as its millions of junked automobiles,” President Richard Nixon declared in a 1970 speech.
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February 2018
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Throw Your Kid In The Scorpion Pit
“HE HAS A class on race and emotional safety,” an old friend of mine squealed with delight about her son’s public school schedule.
3 min |
February 2018
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Blockchain Is Changing Lives In Africa
Startups from Cape Town to Nairobi think the budding technology is the future of the continent.
10 min |
November 2018
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Don't Blame Karl Marx For ‘Cultural Marxism'
Political correctness isnt acommunist plot.
10+ min |
November 2018
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Starve The Tax Man
Americans are increasingly reluctant to pay the IRS. Who can blame them?
5 min |
May 2019
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Would We Have Been Better Off With Perot?
An alternative history of America after 1992
6 min |
May 2019
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Kamala Harris Is A Cop Who Wants To Be President
The California Senator and former prosecutor has a long record of Pushing Illiberal Policies.
10+ min |
July 2019
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Marie Kondo Understands What Tucker Carlson And Bernie Sanders Do Not
Marie Kondo understands what Tucker Carlson and Bernie Sanders do not.
6 min |
May 2019
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Whiplash And Backlash In The Republic Of Cuba
Starvation Won’t Turn Cubans Into Capitalists. Trade And Tourism Might.
10+ min |
October 2017
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The Rise Of Atomic Humanism
The Rise Of Atomic Humanism
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