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Friday Comic: Childhood Associations
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- April 26, 2024
COVID-19 is a disease, and we usually treat diseases as health problems. But when a disease becomes a pandemic, it also becomes an economic problem – not just because of the economic ramifications of trying to protect people from it, but because dealing with diseases on a mass scale requires economic thinking, mostly in the
READ MOREDuring the weekend riots and protests in Minneapolis, I saw a news reporter stop a young protester on the street and ask him why he was protesting. “Stop, don’t shoot,” he said. The reporter, wanting something more than this, asked him again, trying to make clear that he was asking for the actual reason the
READ MOREIn times of social distancing, fear, and sickness, it’s always interesting to look back at the past and see how others have dealt with similar situations. Here are five relevant reads for times such as these: The Plague, by Albert Camus. It is said that when the French become philosophical, they write novels. The great French
READ MOREHarry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, recently announced that they are “stepping down from their royal duties” and leaving the UK for North America. Why? According to one prominent media theory, the problem was racism. Meghan’s mother is black and is a descendant of slaves. The small handful of racist comments from
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