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  • School Security Is Now a Multi-Billion Dollar Industry. Is There a Better Way to Protect Children?

    School Security Is Now a Multi-Billion Dollar Industry. Is There a Better Way to Protect Children?0

    U.S. taxpayers spend nearly $700 billion each year on K-12 public schooling and that eye-popping sum shows no sign of slowing. In fact, as more non-academic programs get adopted in schools across the country, the price-tag for mass schooling continues to swell even as achievement lags.   One ballooning school expenditure is the vast amount

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  • Mr. Rogers: Responsible for the Entitlement Culture?

    Mr. Rogers: Responsible for the Entitlement Culture?0

    The documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor? deservedly made many lists of 10 best movies of 2018. It is a riveting film on the power of love. Years after his death, interest in the work of Fred Rogers grows. Tom Hanks plays Mr. Rogers in the movie A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, which is slated for a 2019

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  • The Feminist Fantasy: Strong Women, Weak Men, No Children

    The Feminist Fantasy: Strong Women, Weak Men, No Children0

    Writer Andrew Davies, who has won general acclaim for his television adaptations of historical novels, including most famously Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, has complained in a new BBC 4 documentary that ‘it is now “compulsory” to have a leading lady capable of fending for herself’, and ‘jokes that he now finds himself “pleading” to write

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  • The Rich Never Actually Paid 70 Percent

    The Rich Never Actually Paid 70 Percent0

    Several Washington commentators kicked off the 116th Congress by rallying behind a newly proposed 70 percent top marginal income tax rate on the wealthiest earners. The 70 percent tax rate figures prominently in the financial equation behind the “Green New Deal” proposal championed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. While a tax hike of this level is

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  • Falling IQ Scores Suggest We’re Getting Dumber. Can We Reverse Course?

    Falling IQ Scores Suggest We’re Getting Dumber. Can We Reverse Course?0

    Are we getting dumber? Apparently so. In a June 2018 issue of Newsweek, Scottie Andrew reported the following: “A Norwegian study published Monday found a seven-point dip in IQ test scores per generation among men born from 1962 to 1991. The results suggest a reversal in the Flynn effect, an observed increase in IQ scores throughout

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  • Congress Used to Pass Bipartisan Legislation – Will It Ever Again?

    Congress Used to Pass Bipartisan Legislation – Will It Ever Again?0

    Congress seemingly hasn’t accomplished much apart from a tax cut and criminal justice reform since the election of President Trump in 2016, despite all three branches being controlled by the GOP. Will that record get even worse now that the U.S. has divided government? As a political scientist who studies Congress, I find it tempting

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