Tim Harford reviewed a new book, The Origins of Happiness, which argues that happiness should guide government policy. Richard Layard has long argued that depression is an avoidable disease which should be one of the top health priorities of government. Unfortunately,…
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If #Pence2018, then is Trump Guilty? Does Trump deserve impeachment?
We already know that Trump deserves impeachment. He has admitted to obstruction of justice involving a known Russian crime that his top advisors and family members are guilty of being accessories to. Done. That is worse than the stain on…
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#Pence2018: Staying where things are cool and clean while Trump burns down the White House
Pence is diplomatic enough to be able to meet with enemy leaders and mentally stable enough to be able to avoid rash diplomatic accidents. [Pence] agreed to a secret meeting with North Korean officials while in South Korea at the…
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#Pence2018, Because Trump is badness of historic proportions
The New York Times surveyed 170 members of the American Political Science Association’s Presidents and Executive Politics section to rank all American presidents and they placed Trump dead last. Of course, if we just look at the scholars who are…
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If not #Pence2018, we are likely to get Pelosi in 2019 and that would be undemocratic.
Trump’s record-breaking historic unpopularity is dragging down the Republican Party and it is undoubtedly too late to stop his effect on the coming midterm election. If Trump stays, he energizes and mobilizes Democrats and demoralizes moderate Republicans with his incompetence,…
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Artificial intelligence will dominate more and more of society. Will it be racist and sexist?
Brian Resnick explains research that our systems of artificial intelligence have learned to perpetuate racism and sexism just like people do. “Many people think machines are not biased,” Princeton computer scientist Aylin Caliskan says. “But machines are trained on human…
#Pence2018: Because Donald Trump is toxically unpopular already, and more bad stuff is on the horizon.
The Center for Politics and Ipsos surveyed Americans and asked them to rate all the presidents who have served since the 1950s. They confirm all the other polls showing that Trump is historically unpopular, particularly given that he has only…
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Medianism 