Australia’s gun control law is a great success, if you haven’t heard. I learned this from a dozen memes that appeared in my Facebook news feed, a conversation with my neighbor, and a slew of media stories. This NBC story, for example, was published as I started writing this story. It features a John Hopkins
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Everyone agrees that there is something different about today’s angry politics. The ordinary issues that have shaped the political debate for years have largely remained the same. The economy is still in bad shape, terrorism remains a top concern and the deficit is still growing as fast as ever. The mood of the nation, however,
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A Morning Consult poll released Wednesday shows that a majority of Americans support a temporary ban on immigration from many countries in the Middle East. Via Morning Consult: Following the Orlando shooting, [presidential hopeful Donald] Trump reiterated his call for a temporary ban on Muslims traveling to the U.S. Overall, Americans are largely split on
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What if I told you that chocolate actually tastes better when you take fat out of it? You wouldn’t believe me, right? Well, it appears to have happened. Rongjia Tao, a physicist from Temple University in Philadelphia, appears to have stumbled onto a new method for making healthier and tastier chocolate. The secret? Run the
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Pew Research has come out with a new study on the presence of partisanship in America, and it’s not very encouraging. The report noted: “For the first time in more than two decades of Pew Research Center surveys, majorities of partisans have not only an unfavorable view of the other party, but a very unfavorable
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Last year, Americans were astounded when it was revealed that spending at restaurants had surpassed grocery store spending for the first time in history. Such an occurrence wasn’t a flash in the pan, either. Spending on meals out has continued to outpace grocery store spending over the last year, a recent Quartz article noted. As
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