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Foreign Policy
Truth and Consequences in Afghanistan
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August 25, 2021
On April 17, 2002, following the decisive triumph of American forces over the Taliban, then-President George W. Bush gave a speech at the Virginia Military Institute in which he looked ahead to “the rebuilding of Afghanistan.” Invoking the spirit of George Marshall and the great builders of the postwar world, Bush stated that military victory wasn’t enough: It had to be followed by a “moral victory.” Peace, he maintained, would be achieved by “helping Afghanistan develop its own stable government,” but also by improving education “for boys and girls,” transitioning the economy away from its reliance on opium, fixing the road system, delivering better medical care.
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The China Challenge: The West Struggles To Respond To Beijing’s Forced-Labor Camps
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August 23, 2021
Editorial
Why the US Should Relax About the China-Taliban Romance
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August 21, 2021
Editorial
Biden Running Same Trump Policies in China Trade Fight, Says Expert
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August 25, 2021
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Welcoming Immigrants Is a Good Start; We Must Recognize Them, Too
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August 26, 2021
Editorial
Regulation & Policy
As Equity Replaces Merit at Elite Test-In Schools, Different Students Are Left Behind
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August 24, 2021
An anguished mother called in to the regular Zoom meeting of the Jersey City, New Jersey, school board this summer. She implored the members and administrators to reconsider the decision that was keeping her son, Nicholas (an honor roll student), out of the district’s accelerated academic program. She pleaded with them to recognize that he had missed the test’s cutoff by only five points, that he had practically home-schooled himself during the yearlong pandemic shutdown, and that he would face bullying at the neighborhood school where he was assigned.
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The Many Pitfalls of Regulating and Subsidizing Child Care
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August 26, 2021
Editorial
Ignoring Booming Job Market, Biden Bloats the Welfare State
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August 23, 2021
Editorial
Healthcare
Certificate-of-Need Laws Limit Access to Healthcare—Repealing Them Reduces Costs and Improves Quality
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August 27, 2021
Certificate-of-need (CON) regulations require healthcare providers to seek permission from state regulators before offering new services, expanding facilities, or investing in new technologies. Though CON laws are intended to restrain costs, increase quality, and improve access for low-income and underserved communities, research shows that such laws increase cost, degrade quality, and limit access—and that these negative effects may be cumulative.
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The Public Option Is Nothing New
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August 24, 2021
Editorial
The Covid-19 Pandemic and the ‘Tyranny of Tiny Risks’
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August 24, 2021
Editorial
First Covid Immobilized Us. Now Governments Are
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August 22, 2021
Editorial
The Most Vaccine-Hesitant Group? It Might Be Ph.D.s
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August 25, 2021
Editorial
Social Issues
Five Things This College Student Learned When She Quit Social Media
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August 26, 2021
My name is Emily Washburn and I’m 11 months social media sober. I’ve been without Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok and all other name-brand social media sites since last September. I took the plunge and deleted my accounts and the apps from my phone.
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Nutrition Science Moves On
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August 27, 2021
Editorial
Professors Fail in Their Duty When Coercing University Students to Study
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August 22, 2021
Editorial
Podcasts
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Bill Nelson on the Growth of the Federal Reserve
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August 23, 2021
Bill Nelson rejoins David for this week's episode of Macro Musings to discuss his article titled, “I Don't Know Why She Swallowed a Fly,” which looks back at the significant growth of the Federal Reserve, both in its reach and in its size, since the Great Recession of 2007-09. Additionally, Bill and David discuss steps the Fed could take to return to a reasonably sized institution, conducting policy with a light imprint on financial markets.
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Zeynep Tufekci on the Sociology of The Moment
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August 25, 2021
Zeynep joined Tyler to discuss problems with the media and the scientific establishment, what made the lab-leak hypothesis unacceptable to talk about, how her background in sociology was key to getting so many things right about the pandemic, the pitfalls of academic contrarianism, what Max Weber understood about public health crises, the underrated aspects of Kemel Mustapha’s regime, and more.
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Antitrust Law Shouldn’t Be Used to Break Up Big Tech
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August 27, 2021
Mercatus senior research fellow Alden Abbott speaks with Rob Atkinson about the Biden administration’s recent executive order on competition, privacy and free speech issues in Big Tech, two competing philosophies of antitrust law and much more.
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