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  • Why This City Is America’s Murder Capital

    Why This City Is America’s Murder Capital0

    Sean Kennedy at RealClear Investigations wrote an interesting short feature breaking down crime in America. There are a couple good nuggets in the piece. First, can you guess the city with the highest murder rate in the U.S.? I suspect most people couldn’t—even if they were given five guesses. (I know I wouldn’t have.) Via

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  • Why They’re Saying Donald Trump is a Fascist

    Why They’re Saying Donald Trump is a Fascist0

    It seems that figures on both the left and the right are increasingly applying a rather unsavory term to Donald Trump: “Fascist.” The term is notoriously ambiguous. Perhaps the most well-known attempt to describe fascism is novelist Umberto Eco’s 1995 essay “Ur-Fascism,” in which he lists 14 characteristics of it. In a column for Slate

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  • Why These Feminists Oppose Pelosi’s Equality Act

    Why These Feminists Oppose Pelosi’s Equality Act0

    Four self-described liberal feminists said Monday that “gender equality” legislation pushed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will jeopardize women’s rights and actually promote inequality. “The Equality Act, which sounds all well and good, is an unmitigated disaster for women and girls,” Kara Dansky, a lawyer and board member at the Women’s Liberation Front, said at

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  • Why There’s So Much Inconsistency in School Shooting Data

    Why There’s So Much Inconsistency in School Shooting Data0

    How many school shootings happen in the U.S. in a single school year? The answer is surprisingly hard to figure out. In April, the U.S. Department of Education released a report on the 2015-2016 school year, stating that “nearly 240 schools (0.2 percent of all schools) reported at least 1 incident involving a school-related shooting.”

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  • Why There’s a Rising Tide of Left-Wing Violence on Campus

    Why There’s a Rising Tide of Left-Wing Violence on Campus0

    That goose-stepping you heard last week was the latest in an increasingly frequent series of violent protests by left-wing students directed at shutting down conservative voices on campus—protests many of which are encouraged by professors and college administrators. Last week’s protest involved Charles Murray, author of The Bell Curve and, more recently, Coming Apart. It

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  • Why There Are So Few Female Chess Grandmasters

    Why There Are So Few Female Chess Grandmasters0

    Only those of very hard hearts can fail to admire Beth, the heroine of Walter Tevis’s magnificent novel, and now a popular television series, The Queen’s Gambit. We love the idea of her, a girl who makes good, starting off from very modest beginnings. She overcomes alcohol and drug addictions and rises to the very top

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