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  • Forty-Four Things You Should Know About the Green New Deal

    Forty-Four Things You Should Know About the Green New Deal0

    On Feb. 7, US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and US Sen. Ed Markey introduced legislation known as the Green New Deal. You’ve probably heard of it. It’s a big deal, to paraphrase Joe Biden. The History of New Deals Wikipedia, the internet’s fountain of knowledge, describes the legislation as “a proposed stimulus package that aims to

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  • Does the Constitution Mandate Universal Birthright Citizenship? Here’s the Answer

    Does the Constitution Mandate Universal Birthright Citizenship? Here’s the Answer0

    Who is a United States citizen by birth? This question has increasingly received national attention, in large part because of President Donald Trump’s promise to “end birthright citizenship.” As I explain, however, in my recent Heritage Foundation legal memo titled “The Citizenship Clause’s Original Meaning and What It Means Today,” Congress definitively settled that question

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  • Design Regulations Helped Ruin American Cars

    Design Regulations Helped Ruin American Cars8

    Your car looks like a box. So does every other car. It’s boring, even shocking when you consider how awesome cars used to look. What’s gone wrong? And to what extent has the design mess contributed to the decline of American auto manufacturing? A letter to the Wall Street Journal comes close but misses the point.

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  • A Slow Learner Looks at Anti-Semitism

    A Slow Learner Looks at Anti-Semitism0

    Long ago, I was enrolled in Staunton Military Academy’s Junior School, which consisted of about 50 seventh and eighth graders. Now long defunct, SMA was a tough place. Copying the practices of the Virginia Military Institute, first-year SMA students were called “rats.” These new cadets faced some hazing, and our barracks saw more fights every

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  • What Amazon’s Documentary ‘Lorena’ Teaches About American Society

    What Amazon’s Documentary ‘Lorena’ Teaches About American Society0

    Over the past several years, America has been deluged with documentaries, movies, and limited series revisiting the great media frenzies of the 1990s (OJ Simpson, Waco, Tonya Harding, etc). These shows are entertaining, but they also play a more significant role. This is the way Americans are learning history now. I watched the Paramount Networks’

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  • The Forgotten Family Ritual That Bonds Parents and Children

    The Forgotten Family Ritual That Bonds Parents and Children0

    A friend of mine told me how as a child she informed her neighborhood playmate one evening that she had to go home. It was time for dinner. Her playmate gave her a confused look. “Don’t you eat dinner with your family?” my friend asked her. “No, we never do that,” came the answer. Unfortunately,

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