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  • Non-Profit Hospitals Are Making a Killing

    Non-Profit Hospitals Are Making a Killing1

    • July 26, 2019

    The annual cost of health care for the average American family hovers around $20,000. Premiums increase yearly, and this is a primary driver of why real wages for average Americans don’t seem to improve. Meanwhile, the CEO of non-profit Banner Health, based out of Arizona, raked in $21.6 million last year. Nearly half of the CEOs

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  • Fighting for the Right to Repair Our Stuff

    Fighting for the Right to Repair Our Stuff0

    It’s hard to overemphasize how new repair restrictions are historically. For most of human history, tools were both produced and maintained locally. Blacksmiths, for instance, furnished items but also maintained them.  Moreover, fashions changed slowly, and people made things to be durable, often repairing and preserving them for a lifetime and even longer. As the

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  • What Hollywood’s Golden Age Offers Today’s Cultural Meltdown

    What Hollywood’s Golden Age Offers Today’s Cultural Meltdown0

    There is no human nature because there is no God to have a conception of it … man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself. ~ John Paul Sartre We are in a fierce life and death cultural struggle over the meaning of human nature and reality in the cosmos. Our postmodern culture

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  • Is College Really Getting Easier?

    Is College Really Getting Easier?1

    Have you ever seen those videos of kids learning they made it into the college of their dreams? A lot of ecstatic jumping and hollering is involved, which brings a smile to even the grumpiest of faces. Nevertheless, I can’t help but feel a twinge of unease for these students. Will they waste four years

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  • Three Things Studying Foreign Languages Taught Me About English

    Three Things Studying Foreign Languages Taught Me About English0

    “Whoever does not know a foreign language knows nothing of his own.”  After studying Latin and German, I understand exactly what this quote from Goethe means. Growing up as a native English speaker, I had little idea of how the language worked. Since I began studying foreign languages, I have learned to appreciate my mother

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  • China’s Recycling Ban: Surprisingly Helpful for the Environment

    China’s Recycling Ban: Surprisingly Helpful for the Environment0

    Off the coast of California floats a Texas-sized island made out of garbage. It’s comprised almost entirely of humanity’s plastic waste. Where did this garbage mass in the middle of the Pacific Ocean came from? Plastic dumping. Plastic dumping is the practice of simply throwing away waste into rivers or lakes which eventually lead out into the

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