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Twitter Removed My Blue Checkmark After I Took My Husband’s Last Name. Here’s How I Got It Back.0
- Culture
- March 20, 2019
After getting married, the decision to take on my husband’s last name was a difficult one. In addition to the financial cost and social awkwardness of changing your identity, the process is so labor-intensive that there’s an app for that. Seriously. For $99, you can “change your name in minutes” on HitchSwitch, a concierge service
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I Talked with New Jersey’s “Wanted” Ivan the Troll to Find Out if 3D Printed Guns Are a True Threat 0
- Politics
- March 20, 2019
What if everything you thought about 3D-printed guns was wrong? I know what you’re thinking. How is this article different from the 50+ articles written beforehand? Well, how many of those journalists do you think consulted with someone who spends a decent amount of their time 3D-printing guns? How many inaccuracies do you think they
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The Rosetta Stone’s Hidden Lesson on Taxes and Special Interests 0
- Economics
- March 19, 2019
Tax season is a good time to remind us that the history of taxes tells the story of whole civilizations. What is taxed, and how much is it taxed, tells us what the rulers valued. What was exempt tells us who had the political pull to be excluded. It is no different today. If you’re
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Three Ways to Stop Hating Taking Your Kids to the Playground 0
- Family
- March 19, 2019
Most parents hate taking their kids to the playground. It’s mind-numbingly boring. It lasts forever. And no matter how long you stay, your kids always cry when it’s time to go home. If you don’t believe me, try Googling a phrase like “playground with my kids.” Most of the results will be along the lines
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Why the Recent Push for the Equal Rights Amendment Isn’t Necessary 0
- Culture
- March 19, 2019
If asked about the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), most people would say it was something that died out in the 1970s. Women were liberated and worked their own way into male-dominated arenas without bothering with the amendment that couldn’t become law. But according to recent reports, interest in resurrecting the ERA is brewing in several
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The Pitfalls of Ethnic Pay Gaps 0
- Economics
- March 19, 2019
British Prime Minister Theresa May is obsessed with measuring pay gaps between social groups. She championed the requirement for companies with more than 250 workers to measure the so-called “gender pay gap.” Now she wishes companies to measure the “ethnic pay gap.” Yet these measurements, hailed by champions of intersectional theory, produce deceptive statistics that
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