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• Commerce Points the Way to a More Peaceful World
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  Barry Brownstein | Thursday, January 5, 2017

  Commerce brings out the best in human beings by providing incentives to care about others. Those who can’t rise above focusing on their short-term narrow needs have little ability to meet the needs of others.

• From Violence to Reason: An Insider’s Account of the Arab Spring
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  Marco den Ouden | Wednesday, December 7, 2016

  “My Isl@m” by Amir Ahmad Nasr is a must read for anyone trying to understand Islam, the conflict it’s adherents face, and the rise of the Arab Spring.
  

• Millennials: America’s Favorite Scapegoat
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  Brittany Hunter | Thursday, November 10, 2016

  Millennials are ruining everything, or so the rest of the country seems to think. According to the internet, young Americans are to blame for the downfall of just about everything this country holds dear. From destroying the workplace experience to bar soap, my generation is, supposedly, single-handedly responsible for the destruction of American values.

• New Overtime Rule Threatens the “Side Hustle”
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  Brittany Hunter | Wednesday, November 2, 2016

  Want to work from home to oversee a house repair or need to quickly pick up the kids from school and take them to daycare? You can’t anymore.

• Horror: Pirate Contact Lenses!
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  Andrew F. Quinlan | Saturday, October 29, 2016

  You can buy some pretty remarkable contact lenses from street vendors, and thousands of people are doing it. The captains are not happy about it and they are crawling to government to crack down. 

• The Streisand Effect and Cody Wilson’s 3-D Printed Gun
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  C. Edward Kelso |

  With hilarious but serious step of youtubing the 3-D printed gun, the squeamishness of American political discourse had been hacked. We’d very well refer to the phenomenon of not being able to stop information from escaping as the Cody Wilson Effect.

• If the Pay Gap Were Real, Kristen Bell’s “Pinksourcing” Would Be Too
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  Donald J. Boudreaux | Tuesday, September 20, 2016

  Businesses have strong incentives to search for, and to compete to hire, workers, men and women, who are currently underpaid. This competition raises everyone’s pay up to the value of their marginal products.

• Let Foreign Airlines Fly Between US Cities
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  David R. Henderson | Friday, September 16, 2016

  The US airline industry has become an entrenched oligopoly. The solution is to reduce regulation and allow more foreign competition.

• Sometimes a Political “Gaffe” Can Be a Gift
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  Jeffrey A. Tucker | Monday, September 12, 2016

  Thanks to the ability we all possess to think for ourselves, this world will finally defy every attempt to control it.

• Five Ways the Government Keeps Native Americans in Poverty
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  Shawn Regan | Saturday, September 3, 2016

  Imagine if the government were responsible for looking after your best interests. How well would this work? Just ask Native Americans.