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Read article →1. Tax land more heavily than structures. 2. “Our findings suggest that equality-oriented governments adopt an approach that insures the middle, buffers the poor, but spares the rich. The result is a rhetorical commit...
Read article →We study whether Democratic college professors make their students more liberal. We link voter data to salary records from 33 state flagships and show that faculty skew Democratic, especially in the humanities and soc...
Read article →I am seeing so many doom prognostications, or least severe worries, due to the OAI/HuggingFace incident and related stories. But virtually all of these I find underargued to say the least. So I have a simple request. ...
Read article →1. African use of Chinese AI (NYT). And what happened to Talenti gelato? (NYT) And the NIMBY brutalists who live in the Barbican (NYT). 2. Modernist Gothic in Copenhagen. 3. AI-generated Odyssey in Vietnam. 4. Questio...
Read article →From Kennedy’s 1961 inaugural: “Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.” “Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.” “United, there is little we can...
Read article →Who would have thought that someone could make a gripping movie about predicting the weather? Nevertheless, Pressure delivers. To be sure, it’s predicting the weather for D-Day. Excellent cast. Hews very close to the ...
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Read article →The Balkans may be the only region other than central Asia where fertility has increased from 2015 to 2026.* All of the highest fertility rates in Europe are in the Balkans. As of 2024: Montenegro (1.8), Bulgaria (1.7...
Read article →For many gig workers, app-based work is no longer just about extra cash but economic need, a new survey finds.
Read article →Amendment 3 would mean most homeowners pay less in property taxes – but that may not end up significantly lowering their costs.
Read article →Pressure from trade agreements can clean up sources of environmental harm, leading to cleaner rivers in the case of Mexico’s much-loved avocados.
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