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After 20 months’ one-sided attacks, smears, and caricatures of President Trump and his administration, more than 300 newspapers across the United States joined together on Aug. 16 to do one thing. Apologize to their readers for their bias? Not a chance. Declare a truce? Not until hell freezes over. Introspection? No way. They did the […] -
A new and widespread corruption scandal implicating businessmen alongside former Kirchner administration officials may have unforeseen consequences for Argentina’s future as a democracy. The recent conviction of former Vice President Amado Boudou to five years and 10 months in prison for crimes committed while in office may still offer some hope for the country. Corruption […]
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Unexpectedly, a casual incident brightened my life. It was one of the most interesting meetings I had during a recent trip to my native province, Tucumán, located in the north of Argentina. There I met Roberto Espeche, a local notary with a fascinating life history. I met Roberto when I was in a restaurant with […]
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Against all odds, cryptocurrencies have increased their market capitalization from nothing 10 years ago to over $214 billion today. However, investor concerns over government regulations are looming. Government regulation is focusing on two broad aspects of cryptocurrencies: electricity use and traceability. For example, China is focusing on electricity use while South Korea is focusing on […]
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There will be no Fedcoin, according to Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, in testimony given before the House Committee on Financial Services. “We’re not looking at this at the Fed as something that we should be doing,” Powell said, when asked whether the Fed is considering issuing its own digital currency. “That’s not something we’re […]
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Basketball superstar LeBron James has a vision of what a public school should be, but in his hometown of Akron, Ohio, there was nothing that resembled what he envisioned. Instead of complaining, lobbying, or nagging Congress “to do something,” he used his name and influence to get the local school district to help him create […]
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Chronic illness is at epidemic levels in the United States as well as other wealthy nations. Autoimmune diseases, though tending to receive less attention than headline-grabbing afflictions such as cancer and heart disease, have experienced some of the most rapid increases. Comprising more than 80 different diseases, autoimmune conditions arise when the immune system attacks the body’s […]
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John James Audubon loved to paint birds… and shoot them. Charles Darwin described the natural world… while blasting away at it. (“I do not believe that anyone could have shown more zeal for the most holy cause than I did for shooting birds. How well I remember killing my first snipe, and my excitement was […]
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Journalism is dead. It wasn’t killed by anything President Donald Trump tweeted. It committed suicide because President Trump exists. On Aug. 16, more than 200 newspapers and many local television stations showed solidarity with one another by editorializing against the president’s criticism of the press—his calling many of them “fake news.” That editorializing is exactly […]
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Commentary The mainstream media has spent two years relentlessly pushing the narrative that Donald Trump’s campaign colluded with shady Russians to dig up dirt on Hillary Clinton and then cheated with the Russian government to steal the election from her. That’s not what happened. What actually happened was that the Clinton campaign paid a political […]
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FBI agent Peter Strzok was finally fired Aug. 10 after more than a year of intrigue surrounding his bias against President Donald Trump. He joins more than two dozen other top FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) officials who have been fired, demoted, or resigned in the wake of investigations of the 2016 presidential election—in […]
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Since the 2016 elections, Donald Trump has been calling the so-called “main-stream media” the “enemy of the people” and a whole lot of those “people” have loved him for it. Now the “enemy” is fighting back. On Thursday, Aug. 16 more than 100 publications across the U.S. will publish editorials rejecting President Trump’s accusations. Orchestrated by the Boston […]
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Just when you think Brazil has turned the corner and rejected a corrupt political class, you find out the slate of presidential candidates for October’s national elections. The most popular candidate is an incarcerated criminal ex-president, with a further six charges pending. The precious couple of change-makers in the race have a near-zero chance of […]
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Let’s do a little thought experiment. Imagine a media report alleges that a long-time driver, or a housekeeper, or a gardener who works for the Trump family is a Russian spy and says that the FBI confirmed the allegation. Then, suppose, President Trump writes this tweet: “The FBI reviewed the matter, shared its concerns with […]
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During his contentious 1987 confirmation hearings for the U.S. Supreme Court, Judge Robert Bork told senators that being on the court would be an “intellectual feast.” That’s how I feel sometimes about the phenomenon of Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, and the other platforms—labeled “the sharing economy”— that are powered by the extraordinary matching capabilities of the internet. They’re […]
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“Never argue with someone who buys ink by the barrel” credited to former Indiana Congressman Charles Bruce Brownson circa 1964. It used to be vested wisdom that getting into a fight with the media was a sure losing cause. And never was that truism truer than during the 1972-74 Watergate political controversy when Washington Post […]
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Independent media are essential to good democratic governance. Adolf Hitler’s minister of armaments, Albert Speer, upon his release from prison in 1966, was asked what lessons he drew from World War II and the related deaths of an estimated 50 million people. He replied that the catastrophe was primarily the result of Germans losing their […]
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Want to win a political argument? Accuse your opponent of hurting children. That’s the lesson behind two recent studies regarding the well-being of America’s babies. A new report from the United Nations Children’s Fund finds that America’s infant mortality rate is only slightly better than Sri Lanka’s. The left seized this finding to call for […]
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As a teenager, every year I had to sit through indoctrination classes on “scientific socialism.” This ersatz science was invented by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels as a theory to explain the processes of transforming society from capitalism to communism, to define the “laws” of the revolution that would occur, and to describe the tactics […]
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A controversy erupted when The New York Times revealed it had hired Sarah Jeong to join its editorial board. When Jeong’s hiring was announced on Aug. 1, people familiar with her history began speaking up. And what a history it was! While she was being touted as a crack tech reporter and commentator on digital media, […]
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News Analysis In an “under the radar” result in Michigan, Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) member Rashida Tlaib has won the Democratic primary for Michigan’s 13th Congressional District. Without a Republican opponent, Tlaib is virtually guaranteed a seat in Congress. In the final days of the campaign, Rashida Tlaib received the support of fellow DSA […]
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Western Canadian bus riders have received an early Halloween scare: As of Oct. 31, 2018, Greyhound won’t offer passenger routes west of Ontario. For the company, it means 415 fewer employees and two million fewer passenger rides each year. For bus riders in remote areas, a vital link has been cut. Some advocates want the […]
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Commentary When Jon McNaughton unveiled his new painting, “Crossing the Swamp,” on July 31, he probably wasn’t expecting to get as much attention as he did, which included more than 14,000 Twitter comments, 20,000 likes, and news coverage from major outlets like Fox News, USA Today, and ABC News. What the incident reveals is a […]
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Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s leader from 1980 to 2017, has become a sad symbol of despotism and self-enrichment. The regime that he and his coterie put in place transformed Africa’s breadbasket into a tragic wasteland of hunger and malnutrition, disease, and hyperinflation. The “robbery despotism” system operated with total disregard for any rule of law. After […]
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Many people regard the welfare state as a great achievement of civilization. Yet, few recognize that the larger the welfare state becomes, the more the beneficiaries themselves must bear the growing costs. The beneficiaries must pay for what they receive and also bear the administrative expenses. Further, taxpayers in general must pay for the rent-seeking […]
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Video footage of verbal sparring between Jim Acosta of CNN and White House press secretary Sarah Sanders on Aug. 2 went viral on the internet. In the clip, Acosta demands Sanders say that the press is not the enemy of the people. Sanders, in response, recounts the attacks and harassment she has received from the […]
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Those who follow events in Venezuela have been wondering for months how long the socialist regime of Nicolás Maduro can last and how much worse the economic and social crisis can get. Many experts predicted that the Maduro regime would fall in a matter of months. I previously suggested that the end would come only […]
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