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from The Atlantic
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Students are abandoning humanities majors, turning to degrees they think yield far better job prospects. But they’re wrong.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
Ocasio-Cortez Mourns a Coffee House Driven Out Of Business By a Minimum Wage Law She Supports
Like so many politicians, Ocasio-Cortez supports increasing the minimum wage without fully appreciating the impact it would have one businesses. For 28 years, Union Square’s iconic cafe the Coffee Shop—located at 29 Union Square West—served New Yorkers and tourists who wanted to get a glimpse of where Carrie Bradshaw and her friends would hang out on Sex and the City. That will change this year. The owners of the restaurant announced in July that the Coffee Shop would close its doors for the final time on Oct. 11th.
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from Hoover Institution
Nonprofit Organization in Stanford, California
Europe’s Deep Localism And Populism
On June 25, 1183, representatives of Italy’s Lombard League met Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa on Lake Konstanz to receive his signature on a charter promising to respect the effective independence of the League’s component cities, as well as the League’s right to continue defending that independence by force of arms. The medieval League’s spirit is very much alive within it, throughout Northern Italy’s cities, and in other parts of Europe as well. It is less the spirit of Verdi’s 19th-century nationalism than of a much older defense of one’s own place and ways against supranational, and even national authorities, never mind foreigners. The League’s overwhelming contemporary popularity in Northern Italy is based on its having ended illegal migration from the Middle East and Africa and on its promise to deport some half million illegal migrants.
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from Intellectual Takeout
Nonprofit Organization in Bloomington, Minnesota
Is Killing a Tyrant Ever Justified?
We recently witnessed the assassination attempt of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, who was attacked by a drone while giving a speech in Caracas. Maduro has plunged his country into the most severe economic crisis of the last decades, trampling on human rights and ending the democratic system along the way. This makes Maduro the prototype of ruler that Mariana would have qualified as a tyrant. But is tyrannicide ethically justified?
Majority of Public Employees Don't Want to Be Forced to Pay Union Dues
It’s National Employee Freedom Week, and a majority of public-sector union members agree with a recent Supreme Court ruling banning the collection of fees without express consent, according to a just-released poll. The case, Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, was brought against government unions for charging non-members “agency fees.” In a 5-4 decision, the court ruled unions must get permission before charging those fees.
Why Chesterton Appreciated Paganism
For more than thirty years G. K. Chesterton wrote a weekly essay for the Illustrated London News. In a 1932 piece, now known as “The Loss of True Paganism,” Chesterton took note of a phenomenon that is still very much with us today. The phenomenon in question was the decline of religious belief and religious practice among the young. Chesterton began his commentary by noting how common it was for members of his generation to disparage the paganism of the youth of his day. In fact, he had heard that lament so often that he had been tempted to think that the lamenters were right. But in the essay, he made it quite clear that he had been able to resist that temptation in order that that he might offer a very different lament. As Chesterton saw it, the problem with the young people of England was not that they were pagans, but that they had lost any and all vestige of paganism. It was not that they had lost their Christianity, but that the vast majority had never had any Christian commitment to lose in the first place. Chesterton was quick to add that this loss was not necessarily the fault of the young, but it was surely their misfortune.
Is Killing a Tyrant Ever Justified?
We recently witnessed the assassination attempt of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, who was attacked by a drone while giving a speech in Caracas. Maduro has plunged his country into the most severe economic crisis of the last decades, trampling on human rights and ending the democratic system along the way. This makes Maduro the prototype of ruler that Mariana would have qualified as a tyrant. But is tyrannicide ethically justified?
Majority of Public Employees Don't Want to Be Forced to Pay Union Dues
It’s National Employee Freedom Week, and a majority of public-sector union members agree with a recent Supreme Court ruling banning the collection of fees without express consent, according to a just-released poll. The case, Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, was brought against government unions for charging non-members “agency fees.” In a 5-4 decision, the court ruled unions must get permission before charging those fees.
Why Chesterton Appreciated Paganism
For more than thirty years G. K. Chesterton wrote a weekly essay for the Illustrated London News. In a 1932 piece, now known as “The Loss of True Paganism,” Chesterton took note of a phenomenon that is still very much with us today. The phenomenon in question was the decline of religious belief and religious practice among the young. Chesterton began his commentary by noting how common it was for members of his generation to disparage the paganism of the youth of his day. In fact, he had heard that lament so often that he had been tempted to think that the lamenters were right. But in the essay, he made it quite clear that he had been able to resist that temptation in order that that he might offer a very different lament. As Chesterton saw it, the problem with the young people of England was not that they were pagans, but that they had lost any and all vestige of paganism. It was not that they had lost their Christianity, but that the vast majority had never had any Christian commitment to lose in the first place. Chesterton was quick to add that this loss was not necessarily the fault of the young, but it was surely their misfortune.
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from National Review
RIGHT BIAS
The Bombs of August
On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped a uranium-fueled atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later, another U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 repeated the attack on Nagasaki, Japan, with an even more powerful plutonium bomb. It’s easy in retrospect to fault Truman’s decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan, but he had only worse options at his disposal.
The Bombs of August
On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped a uranium-fueled atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later, another U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 repeated the attack on Nagasaki, Japan, with an even more powerful plutonium bomb. It’s easy in retrospect to fault Truman’s decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan, but he had only worse options at his disposal.
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from NPR (& affiliates)
Nonprofit Broadcasting & Media Production Company
When The U.S. Government Tried To Replace Migrant Farmworkers With High Schoolers
Randy Carter is a member of the Director's Guild of America and has notched some significant credits during his Hollywood career. Administrative assistant on The Conversation. Part of the casting department for Apocalypse Now. Longtime first assistant director on Seinfeld. Work on The Blues Brothers, The Godfather II and more. But the one project that Carter regrets never working on is a script he wrote that got optioned twice but was never produced. It's about the summer a then-17-year-old Carter and thousands of American teenage boys heeded the call of the federal government ... to work on farms. The year was 1965. On Cinco de Mayo, newspapers across the country reported that Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz wanted to recruit 20,000 high schoolers to replace the hundreds of thousands of Mexican agricultural workers who had labored in the United States under the so-called Bracero Program. Started in World War II, the program was an agreement between the American and Mexican governments that brought Mexican men to pick harvests across the U.S. It ended in 1964, after years of accusations by civil rights activists like Cesar Chavez that migrants suffered wage theft and terrible working and living conditions.
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When The U.S. Government Tried To Replace Migrant Farmworkers With High Schoolers
Randy Carter is a member of the Director's Guild of America and has notched some significant credits during his Hollywood career. Administrative assistant on The Conversation. Part of the casting department for Apocalypse Now. Longtime first assistant director on Seinfeld. Work on The Blues Brothers, The Godfather II and more. But the one project that Carter regrets never working on is a script he wrote that got optioned twice but was never produced. It's about the summer a then-17-year-old Carter and thousands of American teenage boys heeded the call of the federal government ... to work on farms. The year was 1965. On Cinco de Mayo, newspapers across the country reported that Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz wanted to recruit 20,000 high schoolers to replace the hundreds of thousands of Mexican agricultural workers who had labored in the United States under the so-called Bracero Program. Started in World War II, the program was an agreement between the American and Mexican governments that brought Mexican men to pick harvests across the U.S. It ended in 1964, after years of accusations by civil rights activists like Cesar Chavez that migrants suffered wage theft and terrible working and living conditions.
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from The Seattle Times
LEFT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, Newspaper in Seattle, WA
The survey findings alone are shocking: 94 percent of the 148 women interviewed, all of whom identified as American Indian or Alaska Native, reported they had been raped or were coerced into sex at least once in their lives. And more than half the women — 53 percent — were homeless at the time they were surveyed.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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