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How to Make Health Care Unaffordable and Inaccessible1
- Economics
- September 11, 2019
Whether it’s Medicare for All or some other variant of a single-payer plan, the leading 2020 Democratic presidential candidates are in agreement that more government control will make health care more affordable and accessible. The presumption behind these plans is that there is currently too much freedom in the health care industry, and only more
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Fate and Accountability: The Choice Makes Us Who We Are0
- Culture
- September 11, 2019
In “The Appointment In Samarra,” his brief retelling of a an ancient Mesopotamian tale, W. Somerset Maugham offers this look at fate: Death speaks: There was a merchant in Bagdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said, Master, just now
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What Explains Modern Hostility to the Family?0
- Culture
- September 10, 2019
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The Myth of the Declining Polar Bear Population0
- Politics
- September 10, 2019
Many of us watched the viral video in horror. A starving polar bear scavenging for food on barren land, his ribs visible beneath a jaundiced white coat. “This is what climate change looks like,” said National Geographic. The magazine explained that because of melting sea ice, precipitated by climate change, more of these mammals are
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It’s Not Enough to Know Your Own Beliefs0
- Culture
- September 10, 2019
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How to Change Victimhood Culture in a Few, Short Years0
- Culture
- September 10, 2019
My father lost his job while I was in grade school. Due to an economic downturn and attempts to start a business, my family lived without a regular paycheck for over two years. It was rough. We tightened our belts and became experts in frugality. But one doesn’t feel the big pressures of economic distress
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How the Media and Police Could Discourage Mass Shootings0
- Culture
- September 10, 2019
Another public shooting came and went last week in West Texas. Close on the heels of the El Paso Walmart shooting, the Odessa shooting had some peculiar aspects, including its spontaneous eruption from a traffic stop and the killer’s shooting of hapless civilians from a moving vehicle. Like all mass shootings, this led to substantial
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What Is a Washingtonian Foreign Policy?0
- International
- September 9, 2019
Wars and rumors of wars abound. Some want us to see Russia as our perpetual enemy. China, realistically, can be counted as a threat. But to what end? Then there is the desire for a permanent alliance with Israel. Others talk of a U.S. military incursion into Venezuela or Iran. And, of course, there was
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The Youth Mental Health Crisis: What Does It All Mean?0
- Culture
- September 9, 2019
New data on the mental health of American college students shows a somber trend. Rates of depression, anxiety, low flourishing, suicidal thinking, and suicidal attempts have all worsened over the years 2007 to 2018, according to research by Jean Twenge and colleagues, published in the Journal of Adolescent Health. And it’s not all down to more reporting.
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