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  • Make Government Efficient Again?

    Make Government Efficient Again?9

    President-elect Donald Trump has wasted no time since election day, having already announced a string of cabinet appointments—including Matt Gaetz as attorney general, Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence, Elise Stefanik as United Nations ambassador, and Pete Hegseth as secretary of defense. But if there is one appointment that will really shake things up

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  • 9 Thought-Provoking Quotes on Communism and Religion From an Ex-Soviet Spy

    9 Thought-Provoking Quotes on Communism and Religion From an Ex-Soviet Spy12

    An often-overlooked Cold War journalist, political thinker, and ex-Soviet spy, Whittaker Chambers was born in 1901 and grew up in a poor and troubled home. Desperation and dissatisfaction with his upbringing and sympathy toward the plight of the poor and working class made Marxist ideology and its practical application—communism—especially appealing to Chambers. Like many young

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  • 5 Ways to Not Let Politics Ruin Thanksgiving

    5 Ways to Not Let Politics Ruin Thanksgiving1

    Political divisions are ugly, and those divisions have spilled over onto the Thanksgiving table. One study found that “partisan differences cost American families 62 million person-hours of Thanksgiving time.” Presumably those same differences are impacting the quality of family time throughout the year. Time to count our blessings has become another opportunity to count our grievances. Here

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  • Swedish Death Cleaning and Aging in Place

    Swedish Death Cleaning and Aging in Place23

    Several of my relatives and friends are in the process of cleaning out a parent’s home. Some have tragically lost their aged parents, and some are rearranging living situations to accommodate medical needs. In each situation, however, there is an overwhelming factor: Each of them are dealing with a house stuffed with … stuff. No

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  • How Parenting Got So Intense

    How Parenting Got So Intense4

    You can’t find a better explanation of the rise of helicopter parenting and how, when and why that morphed into “intensive parenting” than this New York Times podcast from a few weeks ago, inspired by the surgeon general’s report on parental burnout. Michael Barbaro, host of “The Daily,” interviews Claire Cain Miller, a Times reporter

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  • Mao: Worse Than Stalin and Hitler

    Mao: Worse Than Stalin and Hitler4

    American schoolchildren learn about Hitler and, possibly, Stalin, but few know much about Mao. And yet, while Hitler and Stalin were deplorable, Mao murdered far more people than either of his European counterparts—and his tactics have made their way to the United States. Mao Zedong was born in a rural village in 1893, but he

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