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The Candidate You Like Is the One You Think Is Most Electable0
- Politics
- March 10, 2020
Electability has been the single most important force motivating voters in the 2020 Democratic primaries. But what is it? What makes one candidate seem like they could get votes from a majority of Americans while another one couldn’t? Objectively, political scientists like myself have done a lot of research on what types of candidates win
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Target’s Wage Floor Shows the Folly in Wage Fixation0
- Economics
- March 10, 2020
Bonnie Furlong started working at Target in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, more than seven years ago. Today, however, she’s making the same as new hires and less than she was before the Minneapolis-based retailer raised its wage floor to $13 an hour in June of last year. “The last time they raised it, they cut our hours,
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Healthy and Unhealthy Responses to ‘Mom Guilt’0
- Culture
- March 10, 2020
If you’re a mother, odds are you struggle with “mom guilt.” Even Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, has admitted to feeling it at times. During a recent interview with the Happy Mum, Happy Baby podcast, she described mom guilt as a “constant challenge.” When I get together with fellow mothers, we often discuss this issue. One regular response
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Coronavirus Mass Hysteria0
- Culture
- March 10, 2020
The mainstream media and many politicians are attempting to create in you and in the general population an irrational fear over the latest strain of the coronavirus, COVID-19, also known as the Wuhan Virus. You cannot turn on the radio or television news without hearing dire forecasts about this virus from China that is going
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Boy Brains, Girl Brains. Yes, They’re Really Different.0
- Family
- March 10, 2020
A few years ago, my church nursery had an influx of little boys, all born within a few months of each other. Nursery duty in the weeks before that cadre outgrew it was, well… energetic. Everything was visibly quieter when they left. The possibility of some baby suffering a concussion via a toddler wrestling match
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Where Are the Children?0
- Culture
- March 9, 2020
Suppose you asked a group of university students “What is the greatest problem facing the world today? Many might suggest climate change. Given our present battle with coronavirus, some might cite pandemics. Others would surely bring up overpopulation. Few, if any, would mention plummeting birth rates in developed countries. Nations as diverse as Poland, Japan,
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What’s the Difference Between Pandemic, Epidemic and Outbreak?1
- International
- March 9, 2020
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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Tulsi Gabbard’s Persistence is Nevertheless Annoying Her Party0
- Politics
- March 9, 2020
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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Tariffs Work0
- Economics
- March 9, 2020
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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