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  • What Putin is Doing Right… and What the West is Not Doing at All

    What Putin is Doing Right… and What the West is Not Doing at All0

    This weekend’s Wall Street Journal featured an interesting article about Hungary, a former Soviet bloc country that fled to NATO after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and is now moving closer to Putin’s Russia. As the article mentions, it is one more example of the break up of the Cold War anti-Soviet alliance, and

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  • What Pundits Missed About the Trump-Putin Press Conference in Helsinki

    What Pundits Missed About the Trump-Putin Press Conference in Helsinki0

    When Presidents Trump and Vladimir Putin ended their joint press conference in Helsinki, the punditocracy predictably swarmed all over it like ants around a pile of crumbs. Was Trump winking at Putin? Did he really say he believes Putin more than he believes Robert Mueller about whether Russia interfered in the 2016 election? Former Gus

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  • What Puerto Rico Can Teach Us About Minimum Wage Laws

    What Puerto Rico Can Teach Us About Minimum Wage Laws0

    This week, twenty states began implementing minimum wage increases that were passed during 2016. As the country waits to see how these increased wages this will affect the economy, the U.S. territories have already provided us with a grim example.  After the 2007 Fair Minimum Wage Act was passed, each of the fifty states was required to raise the minimum wage from $5.15 an hour in 2006,

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  • What Public Schools Get Wrong About Diversity

    What Public Schools Get Wrong About Diversity0

    Diversity. It’s one of the buzzwords of this generation. Forget sameness, everyone must be different, while at the same time inclusive. It’s that simple. It sounds like utopia, doesn’t it? A utopia promoted by institutions of all stripes, not the least of which are America’s public schools. But what if our promotion of diversity is

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  • What Princess Eugenie’s Wedding Reveals About Good Marriages

    What Princess Eugenie’s Wedding Reveals About Good Marriages0

    In checking out the morning’s headlines, I discovered I had overlooked a very important event: Princess Eugenie’s wedding to Jack Brooksbank. I suppose I can’t really be blamed. Although a princess, Eugenie ranks ninth in succession to the British throne, a fact which naturally makes her wedding a little less visible than William’s or Harry’s.

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  • What Princess Charlotte’s Portrait Teaches Us About Raising Adults

    What Princess Charlotte’s Portrait Teaches Us About Raising Adults0

    Whenever a picture of one of the royal children comes out, it’s sure to be plastered over every magazine and newspaper for days to come. Such is the case with the latest birthday portrait of Princess Charlotte (shown above), which Kensington Palace posted on its Instagram page. As has been noted, the portrait shows that

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