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You Are Who You Eat With 0
- Culture
- July 15, 2019
Why do we make food? The obvious answer is so we can have food fights. Joking aside, when I reflect on my experience with the culinary arts – whether carefully crafting Buche de Noel for Christmas or whiling away a summer afternoon making flakey scones – food is ultimately about people and community. Yet it
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Can Summer Jobs Reduce Violent Crime?0
- Culture
- July 15, 2019
Several decades of social science has shown a correlation between joblessness among disadvantaged youth and violent crime. While remediation has not been shown to lead to prevention, there is some evidence that summer jobs can. For example a 2015 studypublished in the journal Science found that giving disadvantaged youth a summer job significanty reduces violent crime: In a
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Could Hormonal Contraception Be on Its Way Out?0
- Culture
- July 15, 2019
In the App Store’s health and fitness category, the number of period trackers is now second only to running apps. Women are more empowered to conveniently access knowledge about their own fertility than ever before. One such app, Natural Cycles, goes so far as to describe itself as “digital contraception” and is the first app to
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I Went to a Socialism Conference. Here Are My 6 Observations.0
- Culture
- July 15, 2019
While you were enjoying your Fourth of July weekend, I was attending a national conference on socialism. Why? Because socialism is having its moment on the left. Since there’s often confusion as to what socialism really is, I decided to attend the Socialism 2019 conference at the Hyatt Hotel in Chicago over the Fourth of
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Why Did Cries for Impeachment Suddenly Go Silent?0
- Politics
- July 15, 2019
From the moment Donald Trump raised his right hand and took the oath of office for the presidency, Democrats in Congress, Never-Trumpers, many in the media, and various groups of private citizens have sought his impeachment. Daily have I come online to the various news sites I frequent and find some member of Congress or
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No, I Don’t Care About Women’s Soccer, Stop Nagging Me About It 1
- Culture
- July 12, 2019
Given their arrogant and unpatriotic attitude, the women’s national soccer team seem to represent their own individual egos more than our nation. Paradoxically, they demand more pay while giving Americans more reasons to not support women’s soccer. U.S. national women’s team is using the “platform” they’ve built to diss President Trump and conservative America.
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