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  • Are There Any Limits to Illegal Immigration?

    Are There Any Limits to Illegal Immigration?0

    The U.S.-Mexican border is essentially wide open. Why? Because there is a general expectation in Mexico and Latin America that American immigration law is unenforced. Or it is so bizarre that simple illegal entry almost always ensures temporary legal residence, pending an asylum hearing. A scheduled asylum hearing, in turn, is seen by border crossers

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  • What Happened to Manners and What to Do About It

    What Happened to Manners and What to Do About It1

    There was that guy in high school who went on an overseas trip. He came back and regaled everyone with the glorious things over there that are so much better than they are here. We all hated that guy. I’m that guy today. Life in Seoul I just returned from my first visit to Seoul,

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  • Three Public Speaking Tips From a Little Schoolhouse on the Prairie

    Three Public Speaking Tips From a Little Schoolhouse on the Prairie0

    If you’ve ever found yourself in the dreaded position of giving a school presentation, chances are you’ve heard this clichéd advice: “Just picture everyone in their underwear.” Giving a class speech is something many students push through, red-faced and dry-mouthed, with the knowledge that it will be over in a few minutes. In recent years,

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  • Income Is Determined by the Scarcity of Your Contribution, Not the Value of Human Worth

    Income Is Determined by the Scarcity of Your Contribution, Not the Value of Human Worth0

    In a few months’ time, my wife and I will send our second child to daycare. Like all parents, nothing is more precious to us than our children. So it’s surprising that the people whom parents trust to take care of their kids—childcare workers and preschool teachers—get paid median salaries of just $22,290 and $28,990

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  • Electricity Access Is Spreading (Except in Venezuela)

    Electricity Access Is Spreading (Except in Venezuela)0

    Venezuela has recently experienced a wave of blackouts resulting from the ineptitude of Maduro’s dictatorship, whose policies have led the country to the most severe economic crisis of its history. The lack of access to electricity is having an unprecedented humanitarian impact on the Venezuelan population. Food is spoiling in unpowered refrigerators, looters are running

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  • Are We In Fact Melding With Machines?

    Are We In Fact Melding With Machines?0

    Here’s a headline worth pondering: “Chinese parents want students to wear dystopian brainwave-detecting headbands.” The story, on the website SupChina, details the latest innovation at the Jiangnan Experimental School in Hangzhou. Interestingly enough, the electronic headband, dubbed Focus EDU, is made by a Harvard-incubated American startup, BrainCo, based in Somerville, Massachusetts—right next to Cambridge. As the company’s chatty video explains, in a traditional

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  • Venezuela Should Shock and Teach this Generation

    Venezuela Should Shock and Teach this Generation0

    You are sick so you go to the hospital. There is no medicine. Diagnostic machines don’t work because the power is out. The lights aren’t on either. After nightfall, the whole place is pitch black. You can’t wander the halls. Too dangerous. Small wounds lead to amputation without anesthesia because there is no other way

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  • The Moral Preening of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

    The Moral Preening of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez0

    Six months ago, it would have seemed impossible for the press to be more addicted to someone than they are to Donald Trump. Yet Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) is clearly giving the president a run for his money. In breathless coverage that any attention-hungry celebrity would sell his own mother to achieve, the media dutifully informs

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  • The Intellectual Dishonesty of the Campaign Against the Electoral College

    The Intellectual Dishonesty of the Campaign Against the Electoral College0

    A full-blown war is raging against the Electoral College. But as activist groups become more desperate to overturn our way of electing presidents before voters go the polls in November 2020, their arguments become more absurd and hyperbolic. CNN recently ran a preposterous segment suggesting that James Madison called the Electoral College “evil,” a shameful

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