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Here’s part of President Donald Trump’s speech in Poland: “The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has …
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There are political movements to push the federal minimum hourly wage to $15. Raising the minimum wage has popular support …
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My “Rewriting American History” column of a fortnight ago, about the dismantling of Confederate monuments, generated considerable mail. Some argued …
Read More »A New Twist on Teaching Economics
Greg Caskey is a 27-year-old Abington, Pennsylvania, native who is a social sciences teacher at Delaware Military Academy. The academy …
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