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Design Regulations Helped Ruin American Cars 8
- Culture
- May 24, 2019
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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Does the Constitution Mandate Universal Birthright Citizenship? Here’s the Answer 0
- Culture
- May 24, 2019
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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Forty-Four Things You Should Know About the Green New Deal 0
- Economics
- May 24, 2019
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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What Amazon’s Documentary ‘Lorena’ Teaches About American Society 0
- Culture
- May 23, 2019
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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Six Stats That Show Americans Are Drowning in Stuff They Don’t Need 0
- Culture
- May 23, 2019
The other day I discovered a YouTube channel, Wild We Roam. It depicts a couple who lives a very simple but vibrant life in a van in Europe. They have an incredible video (see below) showing how they converted a Mercedes van from 1980 into a home! When I saw this video, the first thing
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The Forgotten Family Ritual That Bonds Parents and Children 0
- Culture
- May 23, 2019
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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