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  • Where Are the Children?

    Where Are the Children?0

    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?

    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Resisting the Totalitarian Power of Politicization

    Resisting the Totalitarian Power of Politicization0

    “People who live in the post-totalitarian system,” wrote Vaclav Havel in The Power of the Powerless, “know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible

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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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  • 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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  • Counterpunchers: People Who Fight Back

    Counterpunchers: People Who Fight Back0

    In my (much) younger days, I did some boxing. Bill Bianco, an Italian-American living in Boonville, North Carolina, who had boxed as a pro for a little while, gave me my first lessons in the art of pugilism when I was in elementary school. Later, for a year – prior to an honorable discharge in

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  • Bloomberg and Sanders Are Both Wrong About Money in Politics

    Bloomberg and Sanders Are Both Wrong About Money in Politics0

    Super Tuesday – the single day in the U.S. presidential primaries with the most delegates at stake – has come and gone, and so have quite a few presidential candidates. Former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) both dropped out before Tuesday and endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden. After lackluster

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