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New Republic Writer: Blue and Red States Should Go Their Own Ways 0
- History
- March 14, 2017
Nearly a week ago in The New Republic, writer Kevin Baker penned an open letter stating that blue and red states should breakup. In the letter, addressed to “Red State Trump voters,” Baker spends about 4,700 words making an intellectual case for progressivism, insulting people who live in West Virginia and rural Arkansas, and explaining why
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Forget Immigrants. Technology is Killing Jobs 0
- Economics
- March 14, 2017
The elevator attendant asking you what floor you want. The gas station service attendant wanting to know whether you would like your oil checked. The switchboard operator inquiring who you would like to call. These are sounds you do not hear anymore. Add to that the whirring sound of the seamstress, and soon, the voice
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Full Repeal of ObamaCare Would Cover More People than ObamaCare-Lite Bill 0
- Economics
- March 14, 2017
A new Congressional Budget Office report projecting the effects of the House Republican leadership’s American Health Care Act weakens the case for the bill’s ObamaCare-lite approach, and strengthens the case for full repeal. The CBO projects that over the next two years, the AHCA would cause average premiums to rise 15 percent to 20 percent above ObamaCare’s
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Study: Kids Relying on Google to Learn Basic Life Skills 0
- Culture
- March 14, 2017
In the last several years, it has become increasingly apparent that many children no longer know how to perform tasks that were once essential to running a household. But while it’s easy to chalk up this deficiency entirely to laziness or lack of interest on the part of kids, a recent European study found that
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Conservative vs. Liberal Logic: A Comparison 0
- Politics
- March 14, 2017
If you read the news or follow politics, you hear a lot of arguments and all of them sound different. But in reality, there are only two basic ways to argue. We could call these two kinds of argument “Arguing Forward” and “Arguing Backward.” Arguing Forward is principled in nature. It involves beginning with a principle or
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Most People Now ‘Think’ in Pictures 0
- Culture
- March 13, 2017
Like us, many of you are alarmed about the decline of rational thought in Western society. In his book The Humiliation of the Word, philosopher Jacques Ellul theorizes that a major cause of this decline is the fact that most people no longer think in words, but in images. In what he refers to as
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New Republic Writer: Blue and Red States Should Go Their Own Ways 0