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  • Another Lesson from Rome: Taxation, Bureaucracy, and the Rich vs. Poor

    Another Lesson from Rome: Taxation, Bureaucracy, and the Rich vs. Poor0

    Parallels in history are never perfect, nonetheless lessons can be learned. In Mediaeval History: Europe from the Second to the Sixteenth Century (1935), Carl Stephenson, a professor of history at Cornell University, provides a captivating account of Rome’s decline in the late 3rd century as seen in monetary policy, taxation, and how the burden was

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  • Another Impeachment Trial Aims to Banish Trump in 2024

    Another Impeachment Trial Aims to Banish Trump in 20240

    Talk about a case of sore winners. Over at The New York Times opinion page, Neal K. Katyal and Sam Koppelman argue that a recent audio recording of President Donald Trump talking to Georgia’s secretary of state and asking him to overturn the state’s presidential election results should serve as grounds for new impeachment proceedings

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  • Another California City is Trying a Universal Basic Income: Will it Work?

    Another California City is Trying a Universal Basic Income: Will it Work?0

    Starting in 2019, the city of Stockton will join San Francisco and Oakland in testing a “Universal Basic Income” (UBI) program that could eventually be expanded to a state or national level. The official website for the initiative explains:   “The [program] will provide at least 100 Stocktonians with a Guaranteed Income of $500 per month for 18

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  • Another Blue State Poised to Mandate LGBTQ Education for Elementary School Students

    Another Blue State Poised to Mandate LGBTQ Education for Elementary School Students0

    In 2011, California’s state legislature passed the Fair, Accurate, Inclusive and Respectful (FAIR) Education Act. The law, the first of its kind in the U.S., required, among other things, that schools educate children on the contributions of LGBTQ individuals. By 2016, California’s state education board had approved 10 LGBTQ-inclusive history texts for children in kindergarten

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  • Another Actress, Another Point of View on Harvey Weinstein

    Another Actress, Another Point of View on Harvey Weinstein0

    Cassie Jaye, now 33, was a struggling actress in Hollywood in her late teens and early twenties. Her story (click for YouTube link) sheds light on the Weinstein debacle. She describes how young beautiful actresses have contracts with publicists and now the publicists find them entry-level work with the rich and powerful of Los Angeles. A beautiful

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  • Anger is Temporary Madness: The Stoics Knew How to Curb it

    Anger is Temporary Madness: The Stoics Knew How to Curb it129

    People get angry for all sorts of reasons, from the trivial ones (someone cut me off on the highway) to the really serious ones (people keep dying in Syria and nobody is doing anything about it). But, mostly, anger arises for trivial reasons. That’s why the American Psychological Association has a section of its website

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