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This is a speech by the Nobel Prize winning economist, Amartya Sen, about the bad results of austerity programs. He goes into the history and economics of the damage austerity ...
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This is a test of the idea that all handguns have to have a permit, including ones bought at gun shows and from current gun owners. In Connecticut, it lowered ...
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Association Between Connecticut’s Permit-to-Purchase Handgun Law and Homicides Kara E. Rudolph, PhD, MPH, MHS, Elizabeth A. Stuart, PhD, Jon S. Vernick, JD, and Daniel W. Webster, ScD, MPHKara E. Rudolph ...
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USA SOCIETYAs South Carolina mulls furling flag, pro-Confederate protests grow (+video)To some on the pro-Confederate side, the flag is a symbol of the South, depicting valor and also representing opposition ...
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The majority of people are still for background checks at gun shows and for private sales (there are none now in many places).  I am not convinced that preventing "mentally ill" ...
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Those who can afford to are drilling deeper, hoping to tap new aquifers, but those new wells threaten to arouse long-dormant water disputes in the state. Source: California Farmers Dig ...
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A prominent Harvard scholar offers journalists insights on how to cover racism and when they should use the term "racist." AP (American Press news service) has recently updated its style ...
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It is interesting to see that the motivated reasoning that leads to ignoring the massive evidence that the climate is being changed by humans transcends even religion. I suppose that ...
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