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Jussie Smollett Arrested by Chicago Police for 'Publicity Stunt' to Further His Career
The 'Empire' actor is now under arrest and in custody of detectives.
Interruption (speech) - Wikipedia
Alex Tabarrok
@Undercoverhist @_alice_evans I thought men interrupted more?
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Peremptory Challenges
During the jury selection process, attorneys may request that a potential juror be stricken for cause, e.g. the juror is related to the defendant. Attorneys also have a limited number of peremptory challenges, typically between 3 and 20 depending on...
Google says the built-in microphone it never told Nest users about was 'never supposed to be a secret'
On Tuesday, a Google spokesperson told Business Insider it had made an "error."
Millennials 'spend £3,000 a year on coffee, socialising, food and clothes'
The average annual bill comes to £3,312.72, a survey of 20 to 37-year-olds for Barclays found
Reihan Salam Named Next Manhattan Institute President
The Manhattan Institute (MI) has named Reihan Salam as president. He will succeed the outgoing president, Lawrence J. Mone, who has been with the Institute for 37 years, 24 at its helm.
Tech Policy To-Do List
With nearly three dozen new additions, the updated “Tech Policy To-Do List” now provides a menu of more than 150 actionable ideas for Congress and the administration to foster innovation, growth, and progress.
Ep. 17 Alex Tabarrok on Tolerant Rothbardians, the Market for Kidneys, and Potential Security Flaws in Bitcoin
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Why No One Goes to Naples
Tourism ought to be to southern Italy what oil is to Norway: a blessing and a source of wealth.
Hate-Crime Hoaxes Reflect America’s Sickness
There’s an obvious answer to the question, ‘Why would Jussie Smollett do something like that?’
APOD: 2019 February 18 - Dragon Aurora over Iceland
A different astronomy and space science
related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
Reducing Discrimination with More Information
From Cui, Li and Zhang: We conduct four randomized field experiments among 1,801 hosts on Airbnb by creating fictitious guest accounts and sending accommodation requests to them. We find that requests from guests with African American-sounding names...
This story was written by an AI program
The first two paragraphs are from us — and then the OpenAI program wrote the rest.
The Importance of Cities » Pragati
India is rapidly urbanizing – and the Indian state seems to be in denial about it. Reuben Abraham and Pritika Hingorani join Amit Varma in episode 108 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss what India needs to do to prepare for its urban future.
Innate
A leading neuroscientist explains why your personal traits are more innate than you thinkWhat makes you the way you are—and what makes each of us different from everyone else? In Innate, leading neuroscientist and popular science blogger Kevin...
Should Blackmail be Legal?
In his latest column for Bloomberg, “Seven Lessons About Blackmail,” economist Tyler Cowen takes up the issue of blackmail. What motivated it, of course, as he makes clear, is the recent controversy involving Amazon’s Jeff Bezos’s allegation that...
Return to Neptune, III: Do Tax Breaks Mimic the Market?
Rod seems to see tax breaks purely through a special interest lens: Corporations lobby the government for a special deal, and governments respond at the expense of less organized interests. I agree that this is a conceivable scenario. But at least...
Trump tests limits of presidential authority, declares a border emergency
President Trump could use emergency powers to divert money from other government construction projects to build border fences.
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Alex Tabarrok
Declaring a national "emergency" to exert one-man rule is what El Trumpos do in Banana Republics. Future presidents will eagerly seize upon this expansion of the Imperial Presidency--to the detriment of both democracy and liberty.
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