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Study Finds That Seattle’s $15 Minimum Wage Is Costing Jobs 0
- Economics
- June 26, 2017
In 2014, the uber-liberal Seattle City Council passed a law mandating that all businesses in the city raise their minimum wage to $15 by 2021. The most noted advocate of the law is the openly Socialist councilmember Kshama Sawant, who believes it will help “tackle the chasm of income inequality and social injustice.” The law
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Over 6,000 Title IX Complaints Filed by One Person Last Year 0
- Education
- June 26, 2017
Even modest and long-overdue budget cuts draw criticism. The Trump administration proposed cutting the budget of the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) from $108.5 million to $106.7 million — a “minuscule amount,” notes education researcher George Leef. Yet the liberal columnist Colbert King claimed this tiny 1.66% cut would have somehow “gutted” civil rights
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In Praise of Squalor – at Least in College Housing 0
- Culture
- June 26, 2017
The wine stain on the carpet looks like Turkey, a little Anatolian plateau in vintage purple—or maybe it’s the head of a chubby theropod. It matches the picture of Atatürk hanging on the wall in its shabby frame, forever winked at by Lana Del Rey from a ragged-edged poster covered in the signatures of distinguished
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Hillary Supporter: Fixation on Trump is Ruining College Education 0
- Culture
- June 26, 2017
During a recent speech given at Intellectual Takeout’s Spring Gala, author Charles Murray recalled a conversation he had with his daughter just over 10 years ago, when she was a student at Middlebury College. At that time, Murray asked his daughter if she had been able to determine the political leanings of her professors. His
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Four Feminists Who Abandoned Feminism 1
- Culture
- June 26, 2017
Though many women call themselves feminists for a variety of reasons, not every woman who adopts the title sticks with it. Both adopting and dropping the label come with political and social assumptions and consequences, and for that reason some choose to avoid the debate altogether. However, the women below have been involved in the
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5 Tips on How to Successfully Educate Children 0
- Education
- June 26, 2017
Sometimes it seems that education tips and theories are a dime a dozen. This is particularly so in the modern age, when parents are inundated with recommendations on the best schools and educational practices. The challenging thing about the proliferation of information is that it becomes difficult to discern simple and straightforward truth. It is
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Why You Shouldn’t Rage Against Last-Second Mergers 0
- Economics
- June 23, 2017
A scenario many of us experience on a weekly basis: You’re stuck in traffic on a two-lane highway, and the lanes converge into one up ahead. You merged early, and have been patiently waiting your turn behind other cars. Then some jerk zooms by in the other lane, goes all the way to where lane ends,
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Up to 5.7 Million Noncitizens Voted in Past Presidential Elections, Study Finds 0
- Philosophy
- June 23, 2017
As many as 5.7 million noncitizens voted in the 2008 election and potentially more voted in 2016, according to a new study by Just Facts, a New Jersey-based research group, drawing on information from other studies. The study—based on data compiled from Harvard University’s Cooperative Congressional Election Study, an analysis published in the journal Electoral
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Trump Is Falstaff with Power 0
- Literature
- June 23, 2017
Tyler Cowen’s recent piece over at Bloomberg View argues that the kerfuffle over a production of Julius Caesar that portrayed Caesar as Trump is a sign that we’re living in an age where Shakespeare is particularly relevant to our politics. This is a bad thing, suggests Cowen, because Shakespeare is a writer who specializes in
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Study Finds That Seattle’s $15 Minimum Wage Is Costing Jobs 0