There are two educational programs designed to help minority students succeed. One benefits only a small number of minority students, mostly upper middle class, by shifting them from attending good…
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In May 2021, one of the best soccer players in the world announced he was coming to play Major League Soccer (MLS). Lionel Messi, currently 36 years old, rejected a…
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This month marks 116 years since Robert A. Heinlein’s birth. Called the “Dean of Science Fiction,” Heinlein brought two major contributions to the genre. First, he stressed scientific accuracy. Second,…
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Great Barrington, Massachusetts is a bucolic town in the beautiful Berkshires, and the home for the American Institute for Economic Research. During my recent visit this June, a group of…
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The marketplace can be thought of as a battlefield, with the primary objective to win over customers in order to safeguard and expand one’s market share. As such, it is…
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Slavery has never been legal in California. But that didn’t stop the California Reparations Task Force. In its final report, issued on June 29, it suggested that the state government…
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is waging an illegal war on the cryptocurrency industry. The SEC recently charged crypto exchanges Binance and Coinbase with facilitating the trade of unregistered…
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The concept of social justice implies that societies can be ranked from least to most moral, implicitly evaluating outcomes rather than processes or institutions. In practice, social justice is inherently…
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Does anybody use cash anymore? I do, and there are enough people like me to make cash transactions the subject of public policy here in Washington State. To wit, the…
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The AIER Everyday Price Index (EPI) rose 0.41 percent in June 2023, bringing the index to 284.2 after a marginal decline in May. The index is now slightly less than…