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Do Gender Inclusion Policies Favor Girls?0
- Culture
- March 13, 2018
The Girls in Science and Engineering (GISE) summer camp at the University of Michigan (UM) was created as an “exciting one-week, day program for girls who have completed the 7th or 8th grade,” as the top part of the graphic above explains. The annual program’s main sponsor is the University of Michigan’s Women in Science
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3 Questions Congress Should Answer Before Bailing Out Obamacare 0
- Economics
- March 13, 2018
Having failed last year to pass legislation undoing Obamacare’s damage, congressional Republicans now are reportedly looking to spend billions of additional tax dollars bailing out insurers offering Obamacare coverage, rather than dealing with the real problems that are driving up costs. The money would be added to a government funding bill that Congress plans to take
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Forcing Students to Apply to College Is a Bad Idea 0
- Economics
- March 13, 2018
Legislators in New Mexico are pushing a bill that would make students apply to at least one college while they are still juniors in high school. This legislation reflects the powerful belief that college should be the norm for students after they graduate from high school. That belief, however, is mistaken and this bill, should
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‘Happy You Day’: Mother’s Day Cards Go Gender-Neutral in UK 0
- Culture
- March 13, 2018
A grocery chain in the United Kingdom has drawn media attention for selling gender-neutral Mother’s Day cards to make the day more “transgender inclusive.” Waitrose, an upscale grocery, stocked transgender-friendly cards among its selection for Mother’s Day, which was March 11 in the U.K. Some examples of gender-inclusive card slogans and greetings include: “Happy You
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Jane Austen and the Power of the Marriage Plot 0
- Culture
- March 12, 2018
In Jane Austen’s most popular novel, Pride and Prejudice, there are two famous proposals of marriage, both addressed to the heroine Elizabeth Bennet. In one, the insufferable toady, Mr Collins, makes her an offer he thinks she can’t refuse; it is lustful and patronising in equal proportions. She makes several attempts to refuse him politely,
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I Grew Up in a Communist System. Here’s What Americans Don’t Understand About Freedom 0
- Economics
- March 12, 2018
Individual freedom can only exist in the context of free-market capitalism. Personal freedom thrives in capitalism, declines in government-regulated economies, and vanishes in communism. Aside from better economic and legislative policies, what America needs is a more intense appreciation for individual freedom and capitalism. I was born and raised in communist Romania during the Cold
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