Avik Roy
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Are the Uber and Lyft Bubbles about to Burst?
One of my favorite things to ask rideshare drivers is whether and how they calculate their earnings: Do they keep track of hourly wages, how important are incentive bonuses, how do they maximize fuel efficiency and minimize expensive wear on their car, etc. The answers vary wildly, as do the reasons that people ...
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Acosta’s Sweetheart Deal Likely to Foreclose Epstein’s SDNY Prosecution
Alex Acosta did a bad job on the Jeffrey Epstein case. This column was nearly finished when news broke Friday that he would resign as labor secretary. I was going to argue that his lapses did not justify joining the nakedly political mau-mauing by Democrats who have no interest in exploring the behavior of ...
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Culture with Kat Timpf: Dear Cornell University: Questioning ‘Reason’ Is Part of a ‘Scary Trend’
Kat Timpf reports that Cornell University is preparing to ask students whether or not Americans should use concepts like ‘rationality.’
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Ninth Circuit Hands Trump Administration Win in Sanctuary-City Case
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled for the Trump administration Friday in a case concerning the withholding of federal funds for local policing from so-called sanctuary cities.
A three-judge panel of the court ruled 2–1 that the Justice Department could deny Community Oriented Policing Services ...
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Pelosi’s House of Pain
Not so long ago — as recently as the cover of the March 2019 Rolling Stone, in fact — they seemed like the best of friends. I'm referring to Nancy Pelosi and the members of "The Squad": Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and (not pictured) Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley. They shared some good ...
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Gender Dissenter Gets Fired
Allan M. Josephson is a distinguished psychiatrist who, since 2003, has transformed the division of child and adolescent psychiatry and psychology at the University of Louisville from a struggling department to a nationally acclaimed program. In the fall of 2017 he appeared on a panel at the Heritage Foundation ...
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Connecticut Girls Resist Transgender Sports Policies
In today's Wall Street Journal, I share the story of Selina Soule, a Connecticut girl who, along with two others, has filed a Title IX complaint with the Education Department due to her state's transgender sports policy. You can read the op-ed here.
Additionally, I have spoken to one of the other ...
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To Defeat Trump, Democrats Should Nominate Michael Bennet
Washington -- With a disgust commensurate with the fact, Michael Bennet, the Colorado Democrat, says that during 40 percent of his ten Senate years the government has been run on “continuing resolutions.” Congress passes these in order to spare itself the torture of performing its primary function, which is ...
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How Seinfeld Mastered the Comedy Domain
I can’t say whether Larry Charles, Larry David, Alec Berg, Spike Feresten, and the rest of the brilliant writers of Seinfeld were students of F. Scott Fitzgerald, but they might as well have been. Fitzgerald supplied the best advice for sitcom writers:
Start with an individual, and before you know it you find ...
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Even When Accounting for ‘Shy Trump Voters,’ the President Needs His Numbers to Improve
Is there a shy Trump voter factor the way there used to be “shy Tory factor” in polls? Probably.
The final polls in Michigan in 2016 put Hillary Clinton ahead by 4 to 5 percentage points, and Trump won by three-tenths of one percentage point. The final polls in Pennsylvania in 2016 put Hillary Clinton tied ...
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