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What factors explain the gender pay gap?
The rules have changed, and so have we.
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Sometimes the best way to make changes is when you’re in the middle of a challenging time.
This video game designer’s creations have been said to work “neurological magic.”
The standard face-to-face team is inefficient for employees and employers alike.
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Amid the panic of the COVID-19 pandemic, are we building the surveillance states of tomorrow?
From a personal point of view and from an economic point of view, this is nothing short of potentially disastrous for people’s livelihoods.
The welfare state is broken. UBI is the smarter, more effective option.
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The pandemic is exposing long-fractured aspects of our society.
Flattening the curve on panic and disinformation.
The costs of prohibition are great, but can people be trusted to make the best decisions for themselves?
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Economics professor Stephen M. Miller shares his insights in this exclusive interview.
It takes more than a good idea to land a shark as a business partner.
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Inequality from the Recession has a lot to do with how the government designed its response.
And the first sci-fi weapon the Space Force gets is….a device to scramble communications?
In 1998, former New Yorker editor Tina Brown went into business with Harvey Weinstein. That was a colossal mistake.
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A new study says that it could be centuries before millions of the classic toys submerged in the Earth’s seas disintegrate.
As it turns out, people who can afford to fly all the time use more energy than anybody else.
Despite potential good intentions, interventionist policies are often viewed by classical liberals as violations of individual freedoms.
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“Superstar” firms have been lowering labor’s share of GDP in recent decades, a new study finds.
Disagreements should not equal censorship.
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More rules is not what’s going to stop sexual harassment at work, says Johnny C. Taylor, Jr. Change the culture.
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Land nearly 50 hours of expert Excel training for under $40.
The goal should be satisfaction, not perfection—why good enough is good enough.
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The answer depends on how we choose to balance religious freedom, social inclusion, and the search for self-identity.
Participants were also more likely to see God as old than young, and male rather than female.
Jordan Hall speculates on the fate of the species.
Winston Churchill had a secret army, and bunkers like this would have hidden them during a German invasion.
Study finds that a colony’s exposure to pesticides impairs offspring.
In classical liberal philosophy, individual pursuit of happiness is made possible by a framework of law.
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