Avik Roy
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The Worst Advice Column Ever Written?
From Live Well Nebraska comes the most amusingly hysterical and extraordinarily ignorant advice column I have read in a long while. It consists of a question, posed by a man writing as "Dumbfounded Father," and a response, offered by "syndicated columnist" Amy Dickinson. At no point in the exchange does either ...
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Kamala Harris Would Help Dreamers Get Green Cards — Sometimes at the Expense of Legal Immigrants
As she explains on her website, if elected president, Kamala Harris plans to protect 6 million illegal immigrants from deportation and provide 2 million “Dreamers” who were brought here as minors a better chance at green cards and ultimately citizenship — without action from Congress. I agree with David ...
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Weekly Write-Up: Don’t Underestimate Boris Johnson, a Trump Pick for Prime Minister
National Review's Madeleine Kearns gives four reasons why we shouldn’t underestimate the former British foreign secretary, Boris Johnson.
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New York’s Insane Rent-Reform Package Will Make the Housing Market Worse for Everyone
The New York State Legislature will vote this week on a package of reforms to existing rent-control and tenant-protection laws. Governor Andrew Cuomo has promised to sign whatever the Legislature delivers to his desk. The proposal at issue is disastrous; in a misguided effort to solve New York City’s ...
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The Climate Trap for Democrats
The more the climate debate changes, the more it stays the same.
Polls show that the public is worried about climate change, but that doesn’t mean that it is any more ready to bear any burden or pay any price to combat it.
If President Donald Trump claws his way to victory again in Pennsylvania and the ...
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Kamala Harris Runs for Queen
I’m going to let you in on a secret about the 2020 presidential contest: Unless unforeseen circumstances lead to a true wave election, the legislative stakes will be extremely low. The odds are heavily stacked against Democrats’ retaking the Senate, and that means that even if a Democrat wins the White House, ...
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The Dead Don’t Die: Climate-Change Comedy for the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Era
Hipster filmmaker Jim Jarmusch buys into zombie mythology with The Dead Don’t Die. He brings “cool” -- the shrug of apathetic acceptance, the impassive monotony of Zen -- to cultural apocalypse. Even the small American town Centerville, where Police Chief Robertson (Bill Murray) and his sidekick Peterson ...
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There Is No Such Thing as ‘Brainwashing’
In reporting on the NXIVM case, media outlets ranging from Vice to the Daily Beast to, just today, the New York Times have employed the term “brainwashing,” almost entirely uncritically.
The problem with that, which apparently has occurred to none of these outlets whose writers from time to time ...
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What We’ve Learned about Jussie Smollett
It’s been a few weeks since March 26, when all charges against Jussie Smollett were dropped and the actor declared that his version of events had been proven correct. How’s that going?
Smollett’s celebrity defenders have gone quiet. His publicists and lawyers are dodging reporters. The @StandwithJussie ...
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The Many Similarities between Elizabeth Warren and Hillary Clinton
I’ll be out next week. Remember that if you’re in the Hilton Head area, you can hear me ramble about the book, answer some questions about politics and the presidential race, and get some free food Monday night. It’s free, just RSVP here.
Making the click-through worthwhile: contemplating whether the ...
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