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Edward Snowden Deserves a Pardon 0
- International
- September 21, 2020
The global spotlight was cast upon Edward Snowden in 2013 after he blew the whistle on the National Security Agency’s (NSA) warrantless domestic surveillance programs. Working with The Guardian and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald, Snowden famously (or infamously, depending on one’s point of view) revealed that the NSA was illegally gathering information on tens
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America Suffers Under the Iron Law of Bureaucracy 0
- Literature
- September 21, 2020
America is entangled in a net of its government’s own making, one which blocks innovation, tramples individual rights, and costs taxpayers billions of dollars. This cursed net goes by one name: bureaucracy. At the beginning of the 19th century, the U.S. federal government had just five departments: State, Treasury, War, Navy, and Post Office, the last
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The Military’s Secret to Fighting COVID-19 0
- Politics
- September 21, 2020
A week or so ago, while driving home from the coffee shop, I heard a newscaster report that the Pentagon had announced a seventh member of the military had died from the COVID-19 virus. I was stunned, certain that this number was wrong. Surely it must be much higher. On arriving home, I hit my
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What Kind of School Will Help Your Kids To Be Happily Married?0
- Education
- September 18, 2020
The debate over the merits of private schools versus public schools tends to revolve around their relative success in boosting test scores, graduation rates, and college admissions. Which are more successful in giving children the skills they need to thrive in today’s economy? Utilitarian questions like these frame most contemporary discussions of the value of
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Is Beijing Funding Riots in America?0
- International
- September 18, 2020
Who is funding the clearly organized riots happening throughout the U.S.? It’s a question often asked these days, without many answers. Black Lives Matter has been a consistent participant in each of the riots this summer. In fact, up to 95 percent of this summer’s riots are linked to Black Lives Matter activism, according to
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Biden’s ‘1619 Commission’ Is Unconstitutional, So Is Trump’s ‘1776 Commission’0
- Education
- September 18, 2020
Yesterday was Constitution Day, when Americans honor the moment when the delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed this extraordinary document in Philadelphia in 1787. Sadly, recent University of Pennsylvania civics surveys reveal that 37 percent of American adults cannot name one right protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and only 39 percent
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Edward Snowden Deserves a Pardon 0