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The Clock Is Ticking: Trillions in Debt With No Solutions 0
- Culture
- October 15, 2019
As the U.S. Debt Clock reveals, our national debt will soon reach an astounding $23 trillion. We show little inclination to rein in spending, cut programs, investigate cost overruns, or reduce the number of federal workers. No, we keep spending money like it will vanish from our wallets regardless, so much so that we are blasé about
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New York City: The Front Line of Minimum Wage Misery 0
- Economics
- October 15, 2019
Surprise, surprise: minimum wage hikes are bringing unintended consequences to the Big Apple. They’re especially pronounced on the Upper West Side, where a neighborhood staple recently shuttered its doors due to the city’s $15-an-hour minimum wage. At the end of September, Gabriela’s Restaurant and Tequila Bar officially closed after 25 years in business, citing sky-high labor
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Gender Neutral Bathrooms and the Middle School Girl 0
- October 15, 2019
While Western aid organizations advocate for sanitary, sex-segregated bathrooms in developing nations, here at home, legislators are turning their backs on protections for women and girls. In fact, the worldwide effort to destigmatize menstruation and women’s hygiene has seemingly reversed course in the U.S. and UK. Developed nations are making a U-turn on toilet facilities,
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Five Questions About Impeachment in the Senate 0
- Politics
- October 15, 2019
Editor’s note: If the House of Representatives concludes its impeachment inquiry by passing articles of impeachment of President Donald Trump, attention will turn to the Senate. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, is known as a master of the Senate’s rules, and has been raising campaign donations with ads touting the power he would
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Against ‘Scruffy Hospitality’2
- Family
- October 15, 2019
Our society sends mixed messages about hospitality. On the one hand, thanks to Pinterest and the proliferation of food blogs, we are inundated with photos of fancy dishes and gorgeous table settings in immaculate homes. The subtext hints that this is how true hospitality is practiced. At the same time, there’s a plethora of articles
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Why We Love Spiderman 0
- Culture
- October 14, 2019
Peter Parker. The teenager we’ve watched through multiple reboots captivates us. The man beneath the mask weaves a web across many generations, especially among those who, with Peter, are trying to figure out where they fit in a world with shifting definitions of masculinity and femininity, adolescence and adulthood, good and evil. Love it or hate it, the Marvel universe
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The Ugandan Miracle of a Market-Driven Charity 0
- October 14, 2019
In The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Adam Smith, the father of modern economics, describes the sympathetic nature of human beings in one short, brilliant, sentence: How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he
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Joe Biden: Youth Idol?0
- Culture
- October 14, 2019
Today at Spectator USA I write about Joe Biden’s forgotten status as a fount of youthful genius in “Joe Biden: victim of the cult of youth.” Biden won his first Senate election at the 29, the same age as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and spent the next two decades being extolled for his age and sophistication – before spending the
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Columbus Day Still Needs to Be Defended 0
- Culture
- October 14, 2019
One year ago, I made my debut in The American Conservative describing my alma mater’s efforts to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous People’s Day, a microcosm of the effort to erase the American nation and replace its history with something more “diverse.” The work of these cultural arsonists has, unfortunately, continued nationwide. Over the past 12 months, New Mexico,
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