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  • What’s the Difference Between Pandemic, Epidemic and Outbreak?

    What’s the Difference Between Pandemic, Epidemic and Outbreak?1

    The coronavirus is on everyone’s minds. As an epidemiologist, I find it interesting to hear people using technical terms – like quarantine or super spreader or reproductive number – that my colleagues and I use in our work every day. But I’m also hearing newscasters and neighbors alike mixing up three important words: outbreak, epidemic

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  • Tariffs Work

    Tariffs Work0

    For decades, American political discourse has largely operated within the spectrum of opinions voiced by the editorial pages of The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. Opinions not embraced by one of these newspapers were unlikely to advance very far, and those voicing such unapproved opinions were, sooner or later, likely to be denounced

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  • Tulsi Gabbard’s Persistence is Nevertheless Annoying Her Party

    Tulsi Gabbard’s Persistence is Nevertheless Annoying Her Party0

    With Senator Elizabeth Warren’s departure from the presidential race last Thursday, Tulsi Gabbard is officially the last woman standing in the Democratic primary. Small consolation as she clings to hope with only two delegates. Gabbard is the first Samoan-American voting member of Congress, but she nonetheless finished second in American Samoa’s Democratic primary, losing out to spendthrift

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  • Why Perfection Continues to Evade Society

    Why Perfection Continues to Evade Society0

    Just a few weeks ago I was surprised to see a headline indicating American confidence had increased over the past few years. The following chart from a January Gallup poll gives a glimpse into that confidence: How quickly things change. As a friend recently told me, when everything looks good and optimism is up, that’s

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  • After Weinstein, the Rules of Intimacy Come Full Circle

    After Weinstein, the Rules of Intimacy Come Full Circle0

    The conviction of Harvey Weinstein at his recent trial on counts of third-degree rape and sexual assault was evidently a shock to him, but it is also very sobering for sexual libertarians in general.  The field of uncommitted sex is now full of risks and safety seems to lie in a new revolution. The rewriting of the

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  • The Coming Coronavirus Stagflation

    The Coming Coronavirus Stagflation0

    How should you position yourself to prepare for the coming financial upheaval that may result from the coronavirus? The coronavirus already has caused a supply shock that we have yet fully to comprehend. We can’t look into the future but we can look at the past. One possible way the interruption of Chinese manufactured goods

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