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  • How Every Parent Can Combat Rising Teen Depression

    How Every Parent Can Combat Rising Teen Depression0

    Today’s young people are depressed. According to an issue of the Johns Hopkins Health Review, “the odds of adolescents suffering from clinical depression grew by 37 percent between 2005 and 2014.” And this depression doesn’t appear to get better with age, either. According to a Blue Cross and Blue Shield report from earlier this year,

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  • Post Office Has Boom Year, Loses More Money Than Ever

    Post Office Has Boom Year, Loses More Money Than Ever0

    For the U.S. government’s 2018 fiscal year, the U.S. Postal Service reports that it successfully boosted its annual revenue by $1 billion over the previous year to $70.7 billion, marking a boom year for its mail and package delivery services. Unfortunately, it also spent about $3.9 billion more to provide those services than it took in during

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  • Micro-Schools Offer Kids A Customized, Hands-On Education

    Micro-Schools Offer Kids A Customized, Hands-On Education0

    There’s a world of difference between telling kids what they are supposed to know and teaching them how to learn. As parents look for more and better education options, the up-and-coming phenomenon of micro-schooling aims to bridge the gap between facts and experience with project-based learning. Although the micro-school movement launched in the U.S. and

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  • Hillary Clinton: Conservatives Were Right on Mass Migration

    Hillary Clinton: Conservatives Were Right on Mass Migration0

    Amidst the hurly-burly of politics these days, it can be hard to notice when your side has won a victory. Yet that’s what’s just happened for conservatives on immigration: they’ve won. Okay, it’s not a final victory, nor even a crushing victory, but, even so, it’s a win. We know this because Hillary Clinton, arguably

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  • Are White Women Dupes?

    Are White Women Dupes?0

    Let me introduce you to three women. Because of the ugly political times in which we live, I have changed their names, but these are women I know well, all of them white. Let’s start with Katie. She and her husband, an attorney, have one natural child and have adopted six others. The children range

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  • Three Things a Woman Should Never Do on a First Date

    Three Things a Woman Should Never Do on a First Date0

    A while back, Intellectual Takeout published an article titled Three Things a Man Should Never Do on a First Date. The article drew a heated response, with readers expressing very different views. But one thing was clear: they wanted a version of the article aimed at women. To fulfill this request, I interviewed as many

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  • The Wasting of Time and Human Happiness

    The Wasting of Time and Human Happiness0

    • November 27, 2018

    As an undergraduate, I went for walks in rural Michigan. Sometimes alone, sometimes with others. Romantic walks, friendly walks, philosophical walks, beautiful walks. On one memorable walk, I delighted in the loveliness of the effect a streetlight can have on green leaves in the dark. I wasted time on those walks, and it shaped my

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  • Actress Mourns the Death of Compliments at Work

    Actress Mourns the Death of Compliments at Work0

    I always find it fascinating when a public figure makes a candid remark about the negative effects of politically correct culture. Such remarks often contain a hint of apology, as if the speaker knows that such a statement is decidedly unpopular and could get them in serious trouble. But there’s also a sense of courageous

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  • A Transit of Common Sense

    A Transit of Common Sense0

    Against the noonday sun of transgender affirmation in Britain a dark object was seen to pass this week. It was a question mark, or rather, several marks in close succession. Two psychotherapists, a re-transitioned woman and a member of parliament cast doubt on what, in a few short years, has become standard practice among health

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