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  • Cuba Loosens Restrictions on Private Businesses to Battle COVID-19

    Cuba Loosens Restrictions on Private Businesses to Battle COVID-190

    Over the past decade, Cuba’s private sector has experienced slow-but-steady growth thanks to a mix of entrepreneurial grit and incremental policy changes. Although the Communist government continues to waffle on the scope and duration of various restrictions, the number of self-employed Cubans has risen from 150,000 to 600,000 since 2010 – that is, until the

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  • Secular Education Drives American Religion’s Decline

    Secular Education Drives American Religion’s Decline0

    In his observations about 19th-century America, Alexis de Tocqueville pointed to religion as the first of the country’s political institutions – sweeping in its influence on our customs and powerful in its propensity to preempt and prevent tyranny. Yet today, American religiosity is in decline. Weekly church attendance is trending downward, as is self-identification with

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  • Why Are Swedish Bureaucrats Channeling Their Inner Michelle Obama?

    Why Are Swedish Bureaucrats Channeling Their Inner Michelle Obama?0

    Sweden is often hailed for its sweeping cultural and political emphasis on the equality of all things. But while the popular discourse tends to center on its progressive economic policies and far-reaching public services, the country’s focus on fairness stretches across the spheres of Swedish society – including, more recently, its school cafeterias. At a local school in

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  • Free Kids, Free Society: Overcoming the Myths of ‘Safetyism’

    Free Kids, Free Society: Overcoming the Myths of ‘Safetyism’0

    As America’s “great awokening” continues to unfold, we see the emergence of a peculiar new brand of safetyism and self-protectionism. Whether observed in the range of student-led riots and intimidation efforts at college campuses or the fear-mongering of white nationalists, the foundations of liberal democracy are increasingly being called into question – all that a select set of

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