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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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  • What President Trump Has in Common With President Polk

    What President Trump Has in Common With President Polk0

    The game of presidential parallels can be endlessly fascinating. Sometimes it can also be instructive and thought-provoking, even when considering the unparalleled presidency of one Donald J. Trump. That would be the same President Donald Trump who sees himself as the second coming of President Andrew Jackson. Of course, that would be Andy Jackson minus

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  • What Precedent and the Constitution Say About Postponing an Election

    What Precedent and the Constitution Say About Postponing an Election0

    If President Donald Trump’s goal was to get people talking about his latest tweet, he again succeeded after floating the idea of delaying the November elections. If this was a serious political trial balloon, however, it’s unlikely to have any success. Congress would have to pass, and the president would have to sign, any act

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