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  • Preschool CAN Help Kids—If it Includes This Element, Study Finds

    Preschool CAN Help Kids—If it Includes This Element, Study Finds1

    The last year hasn’t been very kind to ardent fans of universal preschool. Rather than help children get ahead in school as has been long promised, studies have shown that it can actually hurt. But a new study published by JAMA Pediatrics shows something a bit different. It examined a preschool program known as ParentCorps

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  • Is it Time to Throw Out Both Democrats and Republicans?

    Is it Time to Throw Out Both Democrats and Republicans?2

    In an election year where a polling firm matched “a giant meteor hitting the earth” against Clinton and Trump – and the asteroid nabbed 13 percent of the vote – it’s time to look for alternatives to the establishment’s political duopoly. And that’s what James Madison recommended: “When the variety and number of political parties

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  • The Crazy Story of How Vladimir Putin Joined the KGB

    The Crazy Story of How Vladimir Putin Joined the KGB0

    It’s safe to say that Vladimir Putin is one of the most enigmatic (some would say ruthless) figures in the world today. Putin became acting president of Russia in 1999 following the abrupt resignation of Boris Yeltsin. Today Putin is in his third term as president – despite the fact that Russia’s constitution once limited

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  • Does Watching TV Together Count as ‘Family Bonding’?

    Does Watching TV Together Count as ‘Family Bonding’?0

    We’ve all heard about the importance of family dinner time. Research tells us that children who eat meals with their family are likely to have better grades, better mental and physical health, and a smaller chance of getting into trouble. As findings from a recent British study show, many families do find that dinner is

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  • Why Lepanto Still Matters

    Why Lepanto Still Matters1

    In Iran this week, a young woman named Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee was sentenced to five years in prison. Her crime? She had “insulted Islamic sanctities.” Iranian authorities had ransacked her home, and inside they discovered an unpublished fictional story that apparently frowned on the ancient practice of stoning people to death. It appears Iraee will

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  • Affirmative Consent Laws: ‘State-Mandated Dirty Talk’?

    Affirmative Consent Laws: ‘State-Mandated Dirty Talk’?0

    Writing in the California Law Review, Harvard Law School professors Jeannie Suk and Jacob Gersen note that “Today we have an elaborate and growing federal bureaucratic structure that in effect regulates sex.” This is largely the result of pressure from the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights, where I used to work. OCR also has

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