Seat belts save lives. Child safety seats save lives. These statements seem blindingly obvious. But everything has a cost. Two American economists recently studied the social effects of mandating child safety seats from 1973. They concluded, counterintuitively, that the conventional wisdom is both right and wrong. They estimate that these popular laws prevented only 57
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The Coronavirus crisis hit children as hard as any other segment of the population. All familiar routines were suddenly ripped away from them. Thousands are still doing school online. Many state mask mandates include young children. For children old enough to remember it in the future, the year of Coronavirus, will be a significant event
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The first presidential debate of 2020 is done and dusted. Thank God. President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden squared off Tuesday night in a raucous affair most Americans would probably just as soon forget. The debate, though at times entertaining, was thin on policy but heavy on invective, cliches, and interruptions. An
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With just a month left until the November 3 U.S. presidential election, contracting the virus could have politically positive or negative consequences for President Donald Trump. These will, of course, be contingent on how severe the president’s illness becomes. But we should not count him out and Biden in just yet. Here are the ways
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The socialist social justice revolution is here, and one former CEO is here to tweet it. On Wednesday, former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, a man whose net worth is estimated at $300 million, took to his old platform and appeared to be gleefully suggesting that “capitalists” who don’t get involved with social justice causes should
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In 2017, the media reported that Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus was closing after a run of 146 years. I beg to disagree. The circus moved its three rings, lion tamers, and clowns to Capitol Hill, and the latest act is about to begin. In his essay “Democrats Take Aim At Amy Coney Barrett,”
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