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Are U.S. Strikes on Houthis Constitutional?
SINCE JANUARY, THE United States and its allies have been conducting strikes against the Houthis, a Yemen-based Islamist militant organization that has been attacking commercial ships in the Red Sea.
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May 2024
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WHAT IF AMERICA RUNS OUT OF BOMBS?
DUE TO OVERZEALOUS INTERVENTIONISM, THE U.S. 1S DISPENSING MUNITIONS FASTER THAN THEY CAN BE REPLACED.
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May 2024
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All the Sad Young Things
Maybe the problem for teens isn’t screens, but what they are replacing.
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March 2024
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GODZILLA MINUS ONE
The beginning of Godzilla Minus One, the latest installment in the 70-year series of kaiju flicks made by the Japanese production company Toho, upends one part of the usual formula: Tokyo is already a smoldering wasteland.
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March 2024
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Predictably, No Progress on Global Emissions
EIGHT YEARS AFTER the Paris climate agreement, where do we stand on global emissions? The title of a new United Nations Environment Programme report sums the situation up: Broken Record: Temperatures hit new highs, yet world fails to cut emissions (again).
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March 2024
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Feds Make a Pharma Patent Grab
THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION may take redistribution to new extremes if a policy revision floated in December comes to fruition. The White House wants to give federal agencies the right to seize some pharmaceutical patents when they deem drug prices too high.
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March 2024
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Claudine Gay's Defenders Shoot the Messenger
CLAUDINE GAY RESIGNED as president of Harvard University in January, following numerous allegations that she plagiarized passages in her published works. But in some corners of the media, the fact that she committed plagiarism mattered much less than the fact that it was conservative writers who caught her.
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March 2024
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Sheriff 'Floored and Shocked' by Deputies' Brutality
\"I'M JUST FLOORED and shocked,\" Rankin County, Mississippi, Sheriff Bryan Bailey said last August after five of his former deputies admitted to punching, kicking, tasing, torturing, and humiliating two men during an unlawful home invasion the previous January.
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March 2024
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Big Brother in the Driver's Seat
IF YOU'VE SEARCHED online about buying a car, you know you're in for a wave of aggressive come-ons and sales pitches. But I found a way to make car sellers clam up: All you have to do is start asking questions about the increasingly intrusive \"nanny\" nature of automobiles.
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March 2024
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Ski Jump Snow Job
IN 1994, COPPER Peak, a ski-flying hill located in a remote area of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, hosted its last ski-jumping competition-or so it thought.
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March 2024
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COVID Vaccine Injuries Deserve a Day in Court
SOME 270 MILLION Americans received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose. Tens of thousands have since claimed they suffered a COVID vaccine injury, ranging from minor side effects to severe adverse reactions.
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March 2024
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The Life and Death of a Company Town
MORE THAN A century ago, there was a town where families of different races lived side by side. Neither housing nor schooling was segregated, and blacks and whites received the same wages for the same work. They also enjoyed many appealing amenities, from high-quality homes to a three-story YMCA.
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March 2024
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Creating Our Own Simulations
FOR RENÉ DESCARTES, minds were essentially thinking (or feeling) things. For the founding fathers of behaviorism, minds were identical with behaviors-talking, habits, dispositions to act in one way or another. More recently, minds have been imagined as a kind of computer: the software running on the hardware of the brain.
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March 2024
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The Revolting Mr. Taxpayer
THOUGH ANIMUS TOWARD tax increases was a key reason for the American Revolution, historians have not shown much interest in the topic in other contexts. One reason may be that the history of tax revolts, much like the history of mutual aid or of nonunion workers during strikes, cannot easily be subsumed under the most popular analytical categories, such as economic class. So Linda Upham-Bornstein's \"Mr. Taxpayer versus Mr. Tax Spender\": Taxpayers' Associations, Pocketbook Politics, and the Law During the Great Depression is a welcome sign.
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March 2024
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REEXAMINING THE REALIGNMENT
CAN FREE MARKETS WIN VOTES IN THE NEW GOP?
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March 2024
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Indonesia's Free Market 'Superblocks'
YOU DON’T NEED CENTRAL PLANNERS TO GET PEDESTRIAN-FRIENDLY URBAN DESIGN.
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March 2024
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THE LAST LIBERAL
Bill Maher on weed, wokeness, and 30 years of free speech
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March 2024
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THE REAL STUDENT LOAN CRISIS
MISLED BY A BAD LAW, GRADUATE STUDENTS ARE DROWNING IN DEBT.
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March 2024
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The Bankruptcy of Bidenomics
BIDEN'S ECONOMIC POLICIES GAVE US THREE YEARS OF EXCESSIVE, WASTEFUL, AND POORLY TARGETED FEDERAL SPENDING.
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March 2024
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'I Knew They Were Scumbags'
How federal prison guards confessed to rape-and got away with it
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October 2023
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The 'Monstrous Beastliness' of Urban Policing
OAKL AND, CALIFORNIA, IS “the edge case in American policing,” journalists Ali Winston and Darwin BondGraham declare in The Riders Come Out at Night. “More has been done to try to reform the Oakland Police Department than any other police force in the United States.”
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November 2023
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Did Evolution Give Us Free Will?
A neuroscientist takes on determinism.
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November 2023
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THE MINESWEEPER MORAL PANIC
WHEN COMPUTERS CAME TO OFFICES, BOSSES FOUND A NEW WAY TO WORRY THAT WORKERS WERE WASTING TIME.
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November 2023
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MIKE ROWE WANTS MORE PHILOSOPHER-WELDERS
The Dirty Jobs host on \"essential\" work, college, and the skills gap
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November 2023
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The Joy of Capitalism
MARKETS DON'T JUST MAKE US RICHER; THEY MAKE US HAPPIER.
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November 2023
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TAKE NUTRITION STUDIES WITH A GRAIN OF SALT
THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF FOOD AND DRINK IS A MESS.
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November 2023
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The Tech Giants Were Always Doomed
COMPETITION, NOT ANTITRUST ACTION, IS HUMBLING FACEBOOK, AMAZON, AND TWITTER.
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November 2023
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Was Racketeering Trump's Real Crime in Georgia?
IN 1969, LAWRENCE Speiser, the director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Washington, D.C., office, appeared before Congress to testify against a proposed law that would greatly expand the powers of federal law enforcement. “Our constitutional system of government wisely limits the range of methods available to us, reflecting our historical commitment to liberty and justice rather than to efficiency and expediency,” Speiser said. “To the extent that this puts us at a disadvantage in dealing with the criminal organization, it is a price we must pay, for ultimately it is this which distinguishes the lawful from the lawless society.”
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November 2023
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The Right To Give
IN JULY, PHILLIP Picone, a Houston activist, stood before a jury of his peers, charged with the heinous crime of feeding the needy.
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November 2023
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Congestion Pricing Hits a New Roadblock
SINCE 2019, NEW York has sought to establish the nation’s first congestion pricing zone, which would charge drivers fees for rush hour trips to improve traffic flows and raise funds for the city’s dilapidated subway system. That plan to toll drivers entering lower Manhattan’s gridlocked streets recently hit another roadblock: New Jersey.
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