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^{Tom Alberg and Bryan Mistele
October 18, 2019
Cascadia

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Raising Taxes on Ride Sharing Harms the Public

_{Tom Alberg and Bryan Mistele
October 18, 2019
Cascadia

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Call it a head tax on wheels. The recently announced plan to triple the Seattle city taxes on all ride-share trips — to 75 cents from 24 cents, which would create the highest flat ride-share tax in the U.S. — is out of the same playbook that brought us the 2017-18 tax on jobs. It would hurt working people and Read More ›

Young female hands hugging old woman, closeup

^{Wesley J. Smith
September 27, 2019
Human Exceptionalism

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Congress Should Pass the Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 27, 2019
Human Exceptionalism

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Unfortunately, the bill is opposed by some opponents of assisted suicide, people who are my friends and whom I respect for their commitment to defending the practice of ethical medicine. This makes no sense to me. The more confidence people have that their loved ones will be cared for properly through palliative and hospice techniques — as my mother was — the less they are likely to turn in desperation to support for assisted suicide. Indeed, euthanasia advocates engage in ubiquitous fearmongering to convince people that their binary choice is allowing assisted suicide or abandoning their loved ones to a potentially agonizing death. In this sense, public support for legalizing assisted suicide can be interpreted as a declaration of no confidence in the ability of doctors to properly care for people. Read More ›

^{Christopher Rufo
August 22, 2019
Economics

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‘New Left Urbanists’ Want to Remake Your City

_{Christopher Rufo
August 22, 2019
Economics

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America’s big cities are almost all dominated by the Democratic Party, but the politics of urban development are far from monolithic. In the past few years, a new faction has emerged across the country. Call them the new left urbanists. These activists have big dreams. They want local governments to rebuild the urban environment—housing, transit, roads and tolls—to achieve social justice, racial justice and net-zero carbon emissions. They rally around slogans such as “ban all cars,” “raze the suburbs” and “single-family housing is white supremacy”—though they’re generally white and affluent themselves, often employed in public or semipublic roles in urban planning, housing development and social advocacy. They treat public housing, mass transit and bike lanes as a holy trinity, and they want to impose their religion on you. Read More ›

^{Scott S. Powell
August 14, 2019

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Woodstock 50 Years Later: An Eyewitness Account

_{Scott S. Powell
August 14, 2019

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The 50th anniversary of the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival prompts many to reminisce about the extraordinary gathering of musical talent and idealism associated with that event. It more than lived up to its promotional billing as “three days of peace and music.” Read More ›

^{Christopher Rufo
August 8, 2019
Economics

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Pushback

_{Christopher Rufo
August 8, 2019
Economics

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The political ground may be starting to shift in America’s bluest cities. While San Francisco, Seattle, and Denver remain reliable Democratic strongholds, a divide is opening between the cities’ activist political elite and a liberal, but more pragmatic, majority of voters. Read More ›

Fake Dictionary, definition of the word Addiction.

^{Christopher Rufo
July 29, 2019
Economics

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Madness and Society

_{Christopher Rufo
July 29, 2019
Economics

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At six o’clock each morning, the alcoholics, addicts, and mentally ill residents of San Donato Val di Comino, Italy, emerge from their homes and congregate—sometimes together, but mostly alone—in the cafés around the town’s main square. Some of the hardened alcoholics order an espresso with a shot of liquor, then climb into work trucks and head out to farms and construction sites. The mentally ill—who suffer predominantly from depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia—order cups of coffee or sit at the patio tables emptyhanded, an indication that they have run out of cash for the month. Read More ›

^{The Bradley Center
July 11, 2019
Discovery Institute, Economics, Natural and Artificial Intelligence, Technology

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COSM 2019

_{The Bradley Center
July 11, 2019
Discovery Institute, Economics, Natural and Artificial Intelligence, Technology

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The COSM Conference is a premier national summit on the converging future of technology. Held in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, COSM highlights the interplay between global innovations and the pullulating Seattle scene of some of the world’s leading tech companies confronting the fastest moving opportunities. Focusing on the “systems of the world” competing to shape our economy and society, the mission of the conference Read More ›

^{George Gilder
July 1, 2019
Economics

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Three Steps to Save America from Collapse

_{George Gilder
July 1, 2019
Economics

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Our monetary system is broken. It’s given us low growth, a shrinking job force, inequality beyond what a healthy economy would produce, inefficiency, and the unnatural growth of finance as a portion of the economy. Our aging Federal Reserve System starves both small businesses and Silicon Valley of the capital needed to grow jobs and wages. Fed policy translates into Read More ›

Black Graduation Hats placed on open books

^{Donald Nielsen
June 17, 2019
Education

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Education System Not Getting Better, Only More Expensive

_{Donald Nielsen
June 17, 2019
Education

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As Ben Franklin was leaving Independence Hall after the adoption of our Constitution, a lady asked, “Well, Doctor, what have we got — a Republic or a Monarchy?” He replied, “A Republic, if you can keep it.” Read More ›

^{The Center for Science and Culture
June 5, 2019
Intelligent Design

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Discovery Institute’s Center for Science & Culture Launches Provocative New YouTube Series Titled “Science Uprising”

_{The Center for Science and Culture
June 5, 2019
Intelligent Design

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“This is unlike any film project we’ve done before,” said Discovery Institute vice president John. G. West. “Science Uprising directly confronts the false views of science held by the growing number of science popularizers like Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye.” The episodes are 6-8 minutes long each and address issues such as the existence of an immaterial mind, the Read More ›