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Good Neighbors Can Make Good Fences
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Good Neighbors Can Make Good Fences

But when it comes to Mexico, the United States isn’t being very neighborly.

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May 2017
Will Florida Ban Fracking?
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Will Florida Ban Fracking?

NIMBYism in the Sunshine State

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June 2017
P.J.O' Rourke: Things Are Going To Be Fine
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P.J.O' Rourke: Things Are Going To Be Fine

But There's Going To Be Some Trouble Getting To The Fine Part.

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June 2017
Trump Cracks Down On Refugees In Nashville's Little Kurdistan
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Trump Cracks Down On Refugees In Nashville's Little Kurdistan

Trump Cracks Down On Refugees In Nashville’s Little Kurdistan

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October 2017
Mississippi's Jump-Out Boys
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Mississippi's Jump-Out Boys

The police punish people for living in a bad neighborhood.

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October 2017
An Expensive Experiment With Singlepayer Health Care
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An Expensive Experiment With Singlepayer Health Care

An Expensive Experiment With Singlepayer Health Care 

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October 2017
Breaking Addicts In Order To Fix Them
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Breaking Addicts In Order To Fix Them

How Synanon revolutionized drug treatment and poisoned the politics of prohibition.

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October 2017
Economics
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Economics

Health Care Costs Are The Reason You’Re Not Getting A Raise 

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October 2017
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Gerry Mandering Is Out Of Control

Computers could be the key to resolving partisan fights over congressional boundaries.

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May 2018
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From Washington To Wisconsin, States Are Punishing Dissent

From Washington To Wisconsin, States Are Punishing Dissent

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June 2018
The Gambia May Beat America To Ending The Death Penalty
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The Gambia May Beat America To Ending The Death Penalty

The Gambia May Beat America To Ending The Death Penalty

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June 2018
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In The U.S., There Are 219,000 Women Behind Bars

In The U.S., There Are 219,000 Women Behind Bars

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June 2018
Russia's Global Anti- Libertarian Crusade
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Russia's Global Anti- Libertarian Crusade

How Vladimir Putin’s desire for domination and acceptance is scrambling American politics 

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August/September 2017
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India At A Crossroads

India is known as the land of contradictions, and recent events do little to undermine that reputation.

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January 2019
Your Money Or Your Life
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Your Money Or Your Life

The immorality of insurance

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July 2017
Young Men Are Playing Video Games Instead of Getting Jobs. That's OK. (For Now.)
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Young Men Are Playing Video Games Instead of Getting Jobs. That's OK. (For Now.)

VIDEO GAMES, LIKE work, are basically a series of quests comprised of mundane and repetitive tasks: Receive an assignment, travel to a location, overcome some obstacles, perform some sort of search, pick up an item, and then deliver it in exchange for a reward—and, usually, another quest, which starts the cycle all over again. You are not playing the game so much as following its orders. The game is your boss; to succeed, you have to do what it says.

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July 2017
We Could Have Had Cellphones Four Decades Earlier
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We Could Have Had Cellphones Four Decades Earlier

Thanks for nothing, Federal Communications Commission. 

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July 2017
Your Flight Is Delayed
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Your Flight Is Delayed

THE FRENZIED BATTLE TO REFORM AMERICAN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL

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November 2017
Marie Kondo Understands What Tucker Carlson And Bernie Sanders Do Not
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Marie Kondo Understands What Tucker Carlson And Bernie Sanders Do Not

Marie Kondo understands what Tucker Carlson and Bernie Sanders do not.

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May 2019
Whiplash And Backlash In The Republic Of Cuba
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Whiplash And Backlash In The Republic Of Cuba

Starvation Won’t Turn Cubans Into Capitalists. Trade And Tourism Might. 

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October 2017
How Washington Lost The War On Muscle
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How Washington Lost The War On Muscle

Steroid Users Hustle To Stay One Rep Ahead Of The Law.

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June 2017
Christians Started the Wedding Wars
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Christians Started the Wedding Wars

Defenders of traditional marriage used the law to persecute polygamists. Now they’re the ones under attack.

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April 2017
America's Biggest Rental Car Company Is Lobbying to Drive Away Competitors
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America's Biggest Rental Car Company Is Lobbying to Drive Away Competitors

The first time New Hampshire State Rep. Sherman Packard (R–Rockingham) heard of the car-sharing startup Turo, it was from a lobbyist.

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August/September 2018
Blockchain Is Changing Lives In Africa
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Blockchain Is Changing Lives In Africa

Startups from Cape Town to Nairobi think the budding technology is the future of the continent.

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November 2018
Don't Blame Karl Marx For ‘Cultural Marxism'
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Don't Blame Karl Marx For ‘Cultural Marxism'

Political correctness isnt acommunist plot.

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November 2018
Starve The Tax Man
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Starve The Tax Man

Americans are increasingly reluctant to pay the IRS. Who can blame them?

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May 2019
Would We Have Been Better Off With Perot?
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Would We Have Been Better Off With Perot?

An alternative history of America after 1992

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May 2019
Why The Wall Won't Work
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Why The Wall Won't Work

The Legal, Practical, Economic, and Moral Case Against Trump’s Border Barrier

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May 2017
Go Ahead, Put Salt On Your Food
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Go Ahead, Put Salt On Your Food

Ignore the feds’ bad advice on diet and nutrition.

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August/September 2017
Cops Who Claim They Know When Drivers Are Stoned
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Cops Who Claim They Know When Drivers Are Stoned

Even when blood tests say they’re not

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January 2018