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  • How Adjunct College Teaching is Like Slave Labor

    How Adjunct College Teaching is Like Slave Labor0

    The Hollywood image of the university professor as a tweed blazer, button-up wearing young urban professional with plenty of disposable income is an enduring one. If only it were true. The image defies reality, at least for the vast majority of college professors. On most college and university campuses today, more than half are referred to

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  • How Adding Work Requirements to Welfare Can Benefit Recipients

    How Adding Work Requirements to Welfare Can Benefit Recipients0

    Welfare reform is becoming an issue again and the left isn’t happy about it. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, recently proposed a bill, backed by the conservative House Freedom Caucus, that would increase work requirements for those on welfare, as well as create billions of dollars in savings for taxpayers. This would be the most significant overhaul

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  • How a Woman Can Know if a Man Truly Loves Her

    How a Woman Can Know if a Man Truly Loves Her0

    If asked to name one of the world’s most foremost novels on relationships between men and women, Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice would undoubtedly be in the running. Indeed, Mr. Darcy has somehow become synonymous with the idea of a perfect gentleman.  But while Austen-mania grips modern culture, its decorum does not. Modern day Lizzys

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  • How a Texas Highway Turned One College Professor Away From Socialism

    How a Texas Highway Turned One College Professor Away From Socialism0

    Socialism is the flavor of the day, especially among young people. In both 2010 and 2018 youth support for socialism measured at 51 percent. Although it has remained steady, support for its opposing ideology ­– capitalism – fell from 68 percent to 45 percent over the same time period. Given the college activist environment, can these young

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  • How a study about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome was doctored, adding to pain and stigma

    How a study about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome was doctored, adding to pain and stigma0

    The public relies on scientists to report their findings accurately and completely, but that does not always happen. Too often, researchers announce only their most favorable outcomes, while keeping more disappointing results well out of sight. This phenomenon, first identified by the psychologist Robert Rosenthal in 1979, is called the “file drawer problem.” Although it

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  • How a Stint With COVID Changed My Perspective

    How a Stint With COVID Changed My Perspective0

    I was stricken with COVID last month. You probably expect me to now explain how awful it was, how I laid around in bed, suffering in agony, and was nearly carted off to the hospital. But that would be a lie. The real story? I had some congestion, did lots of sneezing, and was quite

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