For “Ask an Economist” this week, I have an interesting question from Stephen P. about the effect of traffic ticketing…
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Since the protests against the usurping military junta turned deadly three years ago, the brutal ethnic civil war in Myanmar…
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Fourteen years in government and what have the British Conservative Party got to show for it? The highest tax burden…
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There is a lot of concern these days about what type of curriculum is—or is not—being taught to schoolchildren. “Curriculum…
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