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  • The Myth That the US Leads the World in Mass Shootings

    The Myth That the US Leads the World in Mass Shootings0

    If you asked me this morning which nation has the most mass shootings in the world, I would have said, with perhaps a flicker of hesitation, the United States. This is a tad embarrassing to admit because I’m pretty familiar with shooting statistics, having written several articles on gun violence and the Second Amendment. Below

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  • The Myth That the Rich Don’t Pay Their ‘Fair Share’ of Taxes

    The Myth That the Rich Don’t Pay Their ‘Fair Share’ of Taxes0

    Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have led the charge to add many zeros to what some Americans should be given at others’ expense. As a result, they have doubled (or tripled) down on an “old reliable” claim of the left that “the rich” don’t pay their “fair share” of taxes. But that excuse to tax

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  • The Myth That the President and the Fed Direct the Stock Market

    The Myth That the President and the Fed Direct the Stock Market0

    If you own stocks, you’re probably searching for explanations about the sudden bear market. The answers you find likely start with an event: what the Fed does, what President Trump does, or what the coronavirus does. For example, last week, news stories conflated a speech by President Trump with the market decline: “The president’s prime

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  • The Myth That Climate Change Created Harvey, Irma

    The Myth That Climate Change Created Harvey, Irma0

    Flooding in homes and businesses across Houston was still on the rise when Politico ran a provocative article, titled “Harvey Is What Climate Change Looks Like.” Politico was not alone, as another news outlet called the one-two punch of Harvey and Irma the potential “new normal.” Brad Johnson, executive director of the advocacy group Climate

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  • The Myth That Americans Were Poorly Educated Before Mass Schooling

    The Myth That Americans Were Poorly Educated Before Mass Schooling0

    Parents the world over are dealing with massive adjustments in their children’s education that they could not have anticipated just three months ago. To one degree or another, pandemic-induced school closures are creating the “mass homeschooling” that FEE’s senior education fellow Kerry McDonald predicted two months ago. Who knows, with millions of youngsters absent from

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  • The Myth of the Pagan Origins of Easter (Jesus of Nazareth’s Resurrection)

    The Myth of the Pagan Origins of Easter (Jesus of Nazareth’s Resurrection)3

    You may not get any chocolate bunnies this Easter, but you’re bound to stumble across an article or meme suggesting that the story of Jesus Christ’s resurrection from the dead is just a reincarnation of some pagan myth. Whether it’s Ishtar, Osiris, or Attis, these claims are tantalizing but devoid of scholarly content–much like the

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