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  • The Opioid Epidemic in 6 Charts

    The Opioid Epidemic in 6 Charts0

    Drug overdose deaths, once rare, are now the leading cause of accidental death in the U.S., surpassing peak annual deaths caused by motor vehicle accidents, guns and HIV infection. As a former public health official, clinician and researcher, I’ve been engaged in efforts to control the opioid addiction epidemic for the past 15 years. The

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  • The Op-Ed on Diversity that Got a Best-Selling American Author Sacked by Penguin

    The Op-Ed on Diversity that Got a Best-Selling American Author Sacked by Penguin0

    Lionel Shriver, an American author best known for her 2003 novel We Need to Talk About Kevin, was troubled by an email a colleague forwarded to her regarding Penguin Random House’s new literary and hiring policies. The letter stated that the publishing giant would remove “the need for a university degree from nearly all our

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  • The Ongoing Decline of the American Male

    The Ongoing Decline of the American Male0

    “We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.”  ~ C.S. Lewis, The Abolition Of Man In the movie Falling Down, Bill Foster (Michael Douglas) is a defense engineer who has lost

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  • The Ongoing ‘Mainstream Media Bloodbath’ Is a Win for Truth

    The Ongoing ‘Mainstream Media Bloodbath’ Is a Win for Truth2

    For weeks, news headlines across the country have told dismal tales of layoffs, cutbacks, strikes, and selloffs at some of America’s biggest media brands. The crisis became so dire that Axios called it a “mainstream media bloodbath,” reporting that “nearly a dozen mainstream media companies are gutting staff and scrambling to rescue their struggling businesses.”

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  • The one Trump comparison you haven’t heard yet

    The one Trump comparison you haven’t heard yet0

    The race for the Republican presidential nomination has provided pundits with ample opportunity to claim that we have reached an all-time low in terms of fractiousness, divisiveness and vulgarity. Not so. A quick look to the Classical world lays to rest such a naive assumption. Politics under any system of government is always a dirty

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  • The One Thing Even High-Quality Childcare Can’t Offer

    The One Thing Even High-Quality Childcare Can’t Offer0

    There’s a lot of discussion these days about the high cost of raising a child and caring for him. In fact, just this week, the USDA rolled out its numbers on the cost of raising a child. Warning: It’s not very pretty: “[F]or a child born in 2015, a middle-income married-couple family will spend between

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