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  • What the NYT Fails to Mention About Dads and the Division of Labor at Home

    What the NYT Fails to Mention About Dads and the Division of Labor at Home0

    The New York Times recently ran an article that suggests fathers are shirking their share of chores in the home. The Opinion The article, which bears the headline “What ‘Good’ Dads Get Away With,” states that while men have improved in recent decades, they still fall woefully short in the proportion of housework they bear,

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  • What Bernie Sanders Missed on His Soviet Honeymoon

    What Bernie Sanders Missed on His Soviet Honeymoon0

    Bernie Sanders and I have little in common, given his passionate commitment to “democratic” socialism and my firm belief in individual freedom. But we do share one thing: We both visited Moscow in 1988, albeit for differing reasons.  Sanders was on what he called “a very strange honeymoon” with his bride Jane. I was traveling

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  • All Good Mothers Have One Trait in Common

    All Good Mothers Have One Trait in Common1

    Mother’s Day is just around the corner. This is the day we honor the mother who bore us, reared us, laughed with us (and sometimes laughed in private at us), argued with us, taught us everything from table manners to hygiene, protected us, and believed in us. She picked us up when we fell on

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  • What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Should Know About Her Garbage Disposal

    What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Should Know About Her Garbage Disposal0

    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is from New York, where garbage disposals are not very common in apartments because they were only legalized in the 1990s, as incredible as that seems. But now she lives in D.C., and she has discovered that there is one in her apartment. It permits the user to push down food scraps rather

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  • Public Schools Aren’t Taking Security Seriously

    Public Schools Aren’t Taking Security Seriously0

    Public high schools still aren’t taking school security seriously. Last month, hundreds of thousands of students in the Denver area stayed home from school when a woman in Florida suggested online that she was “obsessed” with the Columbine shootings. The woman, named Sol Pais, disappeared from her home near Miami in mid-April. Soon after, her

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  • Dumbfounded by American Socialism

    Dumbfounded by American Socialism0

    In some regards — no, in many regards — I am a knucklehead. Talk to me of stocks and bonds, of escrow and amortization, and a curtain descends. Speak to me at a party of the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, the music of Philip Glass, and most of today’s Hollywood celebrities, and I will listen

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  • Be a Happier Parent… Or Laugh Trying

    Be a Happier Parent… Or Laugh Trying0

    There is no doubt that parents today face tremendous challenges. Sometimes these challenges are overwhelming and stressful. Parents of young children and teens will appreciate Betsy Kerekes’ wisdom and comic relief in her book, Be a Happier Parent or Laugh Trying. In this interview, she shares with Mary Cooney some advice on how to be

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  • Zimbabwe Is a Basket Case; Botswana Shows It Doesn’t Have to Be

    Zimbabwe Is a Basket Case; Botswana Shows It Doesn’t Have to Be0

    Over 500 days have passed since Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s longtime dictator, was overthrown. He had been in power for 37 years.   In an article published one year after the ouster, Washington Post’s Max Bearak claimed that the country looked pretty much the same without Mugabe. He was right. And the same could be said

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  • Why Schools Must Stop Relying on ‘Best Practices’ When Teaching Writing

    Why Schools Must Stop Relying on ‘Best Practices’ When Teaching Writing0

    When it comes to writing, American kids just don’t cut it. Only 27 percent of eighth grade students achieve proficiency in the subject, according to The Nation’s Report Card. That shouldn’t surprise us given the type of writing instruction which takes place in schools. Today’s writing instruction, a recent op-ed from The Hechinger Report explains,

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