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  • Africa Will Rule the World?

    Africa Will Rule the World?0

    If demographics is destiny then the world will change mightily in coming decades with Africa, especially Nigeria, featuring prominently with an exploding population of young people. The United Nations recently released its 2015 Word Population Prospects report and the findings are fascinating, if not shocking, for those who haven’t been paying attention to global population

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  • Affirmative Consent Laws: ‘State-Mandated Dirty Talk’?

    Affirmative Consent Laws: ‘State-Mandated Dirty Talk’?0

    Writing in the California Law Review, Harvard Law School professors Jeannie Suk and Jacob Gersen note that “Today we have an elaborate and growing federal bureaucratic structure that in effect regulates sex.” This is largely the result of pressure from the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights, where I used to work. OCR also has

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  • Affirmative Action Goes Down in Flames in Deep Blue California

    Affirmative Action Goes Down in Flames in Deep Blue California0

    Even in the deepest of deep blue progressive states, it appears racial preferences are unpopular once voters go into the voting booth. On Tuesday, Californians rejected Proposition 16, a ballot measure that would have essentially ended California’s decadeslong ban on racial preferences for government and public institutions. This ban was enacted by Proposition 209, which

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  • Affirm Transgender Kids, Says American Academy of Pediatrics

    Affirm Transgender Kids, Says American Academy of Pediatrics0

    Transgender children should be affirmed by their doctors, their families and society, says the American Academy of Pediatrics in an official policy statement. The AAP’s policy is to validate all “gender identities” in children without questioning them. It ignores the possibility of children being temporarily or pathologically confused. However, it acknowledges at a number of points

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  • Advice to Young Women on how to Avoid Harassment Should Be Welcomed, Not Silenced

    Advice to Young Women on how to Avoid Harassment Should Be Welcomed, Not Silenced0

    Among the biggest questions lingering from the Harvey Weinstein scandal is how this secret—which apparently wasn’t much of a secret at all—could have been kept for so long. It’s especially amazing since keeping this silence involved a lot of talking: Lawyers were talking to and paying off women who had been abused to keep them

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  • Advice on Manhood Andrew Jackson Received from His Dying Mother

    Advice on Manhood Andrew Jackson Received from His Dying Mother0

    In 1815, as Andrew Jackson stood before his men a war hero following the Battle of New Orleans, he spoke of his mother, who had been dead three and a half decades. “Gentlemen, I wish she could have lived to see this day. There never was a woman like her,” Jackson intoned, according to historian

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