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  • The Stimulus Reckoning Ahead

    The Stimulus Reckoning Ahead0

    I am an ignorant man and I’m not ashamed to admit it. Ask me about history, literature, or current events, and you’ll find me more knowledgeable than some. Ask me about astronomy, auto repair, or computer maintenance, and I’ll just shrug. Ask me to name one or more gender-friendly pronouns or explain the definition of

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  • The Stealth Reason College Kids Are So Miserable

    The Stealth Reason College Kids Are So Miserable3

    The Wall Street Journal reports that today’s college students are so lonely, sad and socially anxious that they grab their dining hall food to go — preferring to eat in their rooms. Time spent in dining halls is down 40%, according to Degree Analytics, a company measuring students’ time spent where on campus. Attendance at

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  • The State Reemerges in the Time of COVID-19

    The State Reemerges in the Time of COVID-190

    Once upon a time, there was an illusion that the state would disappear. It was the fiction Marxists told each other at bedtime, and it was the lie of the Communists, once they had seized state power. For even as they built up their police apparatus and their archipelago of gulags, they kept promising that

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  • The State of the Union Hasn’t Always Been Political Theater

    The State of the Union Hasn’t Always Been Political Theater0

    The State of the Union has become an occasion for political showmanship and partisan display.  But it wasn’t always that way. It was originally instituted by the Constitution as an opportunity for the President to “recommend … such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.” But most presidents didn’t take the opportunity to appear

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  • The State Department’s Entire Senior Level of Management Just Resigned

    The State Department’s Entire Senior Level of Management Just Resigned0

    Via The Hill: The State Department’s entire senior level of management officials resigned Wednesday, The Washington Post reported. Patrick Kennedy, the agency’s undersecretary for management who had served in the role for nine years, resigned unexpectedly along with three of his top officials. Assistant Secretary of State for Administration Joyce Anne Barr, Assistant Secretary of

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  • The Startling Price Tag of Paid Family Leave

    The Startling Price Tag of Paid Family Leave0

    A new report suggests that the Democrats’ FAMILY Act paid leave proposal is substantially more costly than previously estimated. The difference is meaningful: using more realistic assumptions, the cost of national paid leave is 7-fold greater than previous estimates, and taxpayers would be picking up the tab. The American Action Forum analysis uses data from Cato’s paid family

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