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Awesome news from an unbiased source. Nearly 9 in 10 young Americans are in support of the government taking action on student debt. That’s the finding from a survey conducted by the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School.  The highest share of young adults interviewed by Harvard – 38% – favor the full cancellation of…

American civic life has been held hostage for too long by the fallacy of equating racial disparities with racism, or the now fashionable systemic racism. But racial disparities, even highly negative ones, don’t mean racism.  According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in…

Watching France’s election, albeit from behind geographic and linguistic barriers, I have to wonder what the outcome would have been if the Ukraine war had never happened. It’s absurd to think that this would even be a major election issue in France, which isn’t exactly sharing a border with Russia, yet Macron had few arguments…

One is a bunch of hardened sociopaths and the other are the Taliban. While humanitarian aid workers keep claiming that everyone is dying in Afghanistan, it sounds like the Taliban have a lot of spare time on their hands. Taliban on Thursday enforced a ban on TikTok and PUBG in Afghanistan saying that the apps were leading Afghanistan’s youths to go astray.…

The Eurocrats are celebrating, but I’m not sure that they ought to be. Yes, the French will have to put up with more Macron, but Marine Le Pen has been gaining fairly steadily. In 2012, she couldn’t break out with less than 18%. Last time around, she made it to 33% against Macron, and this…

How do you solve a problem like George Floyd Square? They’ve tried burning it all down and by ‘they’, I mean the BLM mob. “I have not fully recovered from that time and I know that we as a community have not fully recovered from that time. I don’t know when we will. I do know…