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The best explanation of the firing of FBI director James Comey and of the subsequent investigation by special counsel and former FBI director Robert Mueller may just come from a social scientist who died years before President Donald Trump took office. When James Q. Wilson died in 2012, he was
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French President Emmanuel Macron cannot avoid the soundbites that end up biting him back. The man, who does not have children himself, continues to question why anyone would have a big family … hinting that only uneducated women would welcome lots of children. Last month, President Macron spoke at a Gates
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U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren accused Republican challenger Geoff Diehl of attending a rally sponsored by an anti-Muslim hate group during a debate Friday night. Her source for the description of the rally sponsor is the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is itself a hate group, as well as a
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On the face of it, it would seem reasonable to believe that education policy makers could learn much from successful policies and programs. But they often don't. Here are two relatively clear examples of policy makers failing to learn from effective policies/programs. In both cases, the policy
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It's 7 p.m. on a weeknight, and around 100 professionals from commercial and investment banks, brokerage and investment management firms, and other financial service companies are meeting in Boston. Arriving after work, the attendees have put their workday routines aside for a couple of hours, gathering for
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For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. To me, it is a prison. — Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2; William Shakespeare
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Did U.S. Representative Christopher Collins commit the federal crime of securities fraud when he spoke to his son, Cameron, on the phone shortly after he found out bad news about an Australian biotechnology company that they both held shares in? The answer may depend in part on which one
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In 1630, John Winthrop, the leader of the Puritan founders who landed in Boston, delivered what would become a famous sermon just before the first group of Massachusetts Bay Colonists departed for America on the ship Arbella. The sermon, titled "A Model of Christian Charity," is one of
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