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Trump Launches Effort to Shrink Executive Branch 0
- Politics
- March 16, 2017
President Donald Trump signed an executive order to create a “Comprehensive Plan for Reorganizing the Executive Branch.” The order requires his budget director, Mick Mulvaney, to complete a plan recommending specific spending cuts based on input from federal agencies and outside scholars. This is a promising initiative. It will be up to Congress to enact the administration’s
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Is California Intentionally Making Bad Schools Appear Good?0
- Education
- March 16, 2017
With the increased emphasis on transparency in recent years, it has become easier for parents to get some idea of the quality of education their child is receiving. But while such transparency is good for parents and children, it’s not so great for our country’s education system. Much to the chagrin of Americans across the
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Left-Wing Economics Is No Match for Alt-Right Resentment 0
- Economics
- March 16, 2017
The Democratic leadership, and its leftwing intellectual base, are feeling implausibly smug these days. They figure it this way: the Trump era is going to inspire a blowback. Trump will make a terrible mess, destabilize income security and health care access, and skew social power in favor of fat cats, and all of this will
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These School Districts Stopped Disciplining Students, and Chaos Ensued 0
- Culture
- March 16, 2017
Last year, following a rash of student violence in a Minnesota public school district, one teacher made a startling statement: “[T]eachers feel powerless to discipline. I am not exaggerating. We are told to never under any circumstances touch a student as a behavioral intervention. We have no way to discipline. If a child is running
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How Arrogance Makes Obnoxious People Popular 0
- Culture
- March 15, 2017
Urapmin, a remote community in the mountains of Papua New Guinea, has no electricity in any of its seven villages. The people there, also called Urapmin, have no regular way of earning cash. They build their houses out of materials they gather from the rainforest that surrounds them, and they garden and hunt for their
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How Corn Kernels Could Hold the Key to Beating Cancer 0
- Education
- March 15, 2017
Driving down a country highway in the Midwest can seem an endless ribbon flanked by green walls of corn, neatly planted in stately rows. But who would guess that a plant that feeds a planet might hold clues that could help us better understand, or perhaps cure, insidious human diseases? Recent research from Dr. Mark
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Trump Launches Effort to Shrink Executive Branch 0