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It’s easy to laugh, as some of us do , at the phrase “conservative intellectual.” When the most prominent public spokesmen for the right’s ideas include Milo Yiannopoulos , Charles Murray , and Dinesh D’Souza , one might conclude that the movement does not have anything serious to offer beyond…
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The one downside of the fact that the Nationals (hurrah for our brave boys!) are in the World Series is that now the New York Times is trying to inform its readers about this curious hamlet with few r
The man was agitated, with red-rimmed eyes and clammy skin. “Help me,” he said. “I’m under a curse.” At first it was just flickering lights, he said. And then a figure, at the edge of his vision. Now
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Stifling international regulations have been blamed for delaying the approval of a food that could have helped save millions of lives this century. The claim is made in a new investigation of the cont
Brink Lindsey is vice president of the Niskanen Center in Washington. This is the first in a series of On Common Ground essays that identifies areas of broad agreement in a divided political era. Look
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In a new story, we look at the intense competition between China and the United States to develop quantum technology, which is based on the field of quantum mechanics and holds the promise of transfor
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