When people think of polarizing countries, Sweden rarely leaps to mind. At least that was the case before 2020. Sweden’s decision to take a “lighter touch” to the coronavirus pandemic – foregoing strict lockdowns and relying primarily on social responsibility to encourage social distancing – has made it a lighting rod for criticism. Many commentators
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The question looms in nearly every U.S. presidential election, even in this year’s race: Could the polls be wrong? If they are, they likely will err in unique fashion. The history of election polling says as much. That history tells of no greater polling surprise than what happened in 1948, when President Harry Truman defied
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We live in strange times in which we have become obsessed with race to such a degree that skin color has become the determinant of all moral rectitude. If we were “fortunate” enough to be born with white skin, we are guilty of “privilege” which is systemically racist; if we were “unfortunate” enough to be
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Estimated costs of the coronavirus pandemic are in. The results are not pretty. A new study co-authored by Harvard economist David M. Cutler and former World Bank chief economist Lawrence H. Summers places the costs of the COVID-19 pandemic north of $16 trillion. “The estimated cumulative financial costs of the COVID-19 pandemic related to the
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On Wednesday October 14, the New York Post broke a story of political scandal that might have come straight out of Hollywood. In April 2019, an unidentified man, perhaps Hunter Biden, delivered a water-damaged computer to a repair shop in Biden’s home state of Delaware in hopes of having it restored. He left without paying for this service. Once
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My neighbors, intrepidly homeschooling since the arrival of COVID, came to my door the other day and dropped off a craft they made as part of their studies on a certain mammal. Given the subject of the craft, it was clear they were exploring things their children were interested in, asking questions about, and seeking
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