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How Child Care Became the Most Broken Business in America

6 December 2021by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Claire Suddath Bloomberg Deanna Cohen was 20 years into a career in the music industry when she realized it wasn’t going to work out. On paper she looked like […]

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What is the Internet Doing to Boomers’ Brains?

10 November 2020by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Michael Hobbes Huffpost The last time they spoke, John’s father accused him of being part of the deep state.  They have never exactly gelled politically — John, 38, is […]

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The Electoral College’s Racist Origins

4 November 2020by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Wilfred Codrington III The Atlantic Is a color-blind political system possible under our Constitution? If it is, the Supreme Court’s evisceration of the Voting Rights Act in 2013 did […]

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This Republican Party is Not Worth Saving

10 September 2020by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Tom Nichols The Atlantic I was a Republican for most of my adult life. I came of political age in 1980, and although I grew up in a working-class […]

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How the Pandemic Defeated America

7 August 2020by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Ed Yong The Atlantic How did it come to this? A virus a thousand times smaller than a dust mote has humbled and humiliated the planet’s most powerful nation. America […]

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What Science Can do for Democracy

19 July 2020by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Tina Eliassi-Rad, Henry Farrell, David Garcia, Stephan Lewandowsky, Patricia Palacios, Don Ross, Didier Sornette, Karim Thébault, & Karoline Wiesner Humanities and Social Sciences Communications The Economist recently identified 80 […]

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How You’re Tricked Into Believing Fake News

20 June 2020by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Katy Steinmetz Time Sitting in front of a computer not long ago, a tenured history professor faced a challenge that billions of us do every day: deciding whether to […]

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A Placebo President?

14 April 2017by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Tyler Cowen The American Interest When I ponder why the American electorate turned to such an unorthodox President as Donald Trump, I think first of the idea of control. […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, LAW, NATIONAL SECURITY

Should the Right to Vote be Restricted to Those With Knowledge?

7 October 2016by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Jason Brennan Aeon Who should hold power: the few or the many? Concentrating power in the hands of a few – in monarchy, dictatorship or oligarchy – tends to […]

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How the Education Gap is Tearing Politics Apart

5 October 2016by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By David Runciman The Guardian On 23 February, Donald Trump stood before a rally of cheering supporters to celebrate a thumping victory in the Nevada Republican caucus – his third […]

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