Blog 3 Columns

Teens With Strong Family Ties Can Ward Off Depression 0
- Culture
- October 8, 2019
Depression is a leading cause of disability and disease for people around the world. It often begins during adolescence, especially for females, may continue or recur in adulthood and tends to become a lifetime chronic health condition. More than 300 million people suffer from this mental health disorder worldwide. Depression is not only about feeling
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Reactions to My Tweet Reveal the Ignorant Brutality of Young Socialists and Communists 0
- Education
- October 8, 2019
An eye-opening social experiment unfolded on my Twitter feed over the past several days that reveals a lot about America’s new brand of young communists and socialists. Not to bury the lede: Yes, they are still as repugnantly brutal as their predecessors in St. Petersburg and Phnom Penh – but today they add ignorance and infantilism to the
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How Cronyism Created New York City’s Taxi Medallion Bubble 0
- Culture
- October 8, 2019
If one wanted to study the difference between an industry that exists in a very free market and its exact counterpart in a system of extreme government regulation, then you don’t need to look further than the New York City taxi industry. New York City yellow cabs entered government regulation in 1937 when city officials
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Why Families With Children Should Consider Owning a Pet 1
- Family
- October 7, 2019
We live in an era where pets are increasingly substituted for children. Each year, it’s becoming more common to wish a Happy Mother’s Day or Father’s Day to “parents” of “fur babies.” As a mother of human babies, I find this a bit insulting. Animals can never compare with children. Putting aside the question of pets versus children, let
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Why a ‘Billionaire’ Wealth Tax Would Hurt the Working Poor and the Middle Class 0
- Economics
- October 7, 2019
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders wants to tax billionaires out of existence, or at least make them an endangered species. His proposed wealth tax of up to eight percent per year would mean “the wealth of billionaires would be cut in half over 15 years,” he says. The progressive tax would start at one percent on
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I Spent a Year as a Trans Man. Doctors Failed Me at Every Turn.0
- Culture
- October 7, 2019
I can’t wrap my head around all that I’ve done to myself in the last two years, much less the “help” that some health care professionals have done to me. Two years ago, I was a healthy, beautiful girl heading toward high school graduation. Before long, I turned into an overweight, pre-diabetic nightmare of a
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Free Kids, Free Society: Overcoming the Myths of ‘Safetyism’0
- Culture
- October 7, 2019
As America’s “great awokening” continues to unfold, we see the emergence of a peculiar new brand of safetyism and self-protectionism. Whether observed in the range of student-led riots and intimidation efforts at college campuses or the fear-mongering of white nationalists, the foundations of liberal democracy are increasingly being called into question – all that a select set of
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‘Let’s Eat the Babies!’0
- Culture
- October 7, 2019
“Save the planet – Eat the children.” So read the words on the t-shirt of one of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s supporters. In addition to the slogan, the young woman offered these thoughts at the Ocasio-Cortez town hall event on Thursday, October 4: I love that you support the Green Deal, but it’s not getting rid of fossil fuel,
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Why We Lie to Our Doctors 0
- Culture
- October 4, 2019
Let’s suppose you’re having transmission trouble with your car. You take it to a mechanic, but instead of explaining about the transmission, you tell him the brakes are squishy. Would you lie to the mechanic about the problem with your automobile? Not if you’re in your right mind. You want your transmission repaired. So why
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Teens With Strong Family Ties Can Ward Off Depression 0