Month: August 2018

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I Still Can’t Believe It

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On August 31, 2018
  I know that in today’s modern world this is ancient news and I also know this subject has been covered here already, but this story is relevant to…so many of my interests and I just can’t get over the fact that the Texas GOP tweeted out a photo of Beto O’Rourke looking, this is […]
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This is the grave of Elizabeth Freeman. Born into slavery around 1744 on a farm near Claverack, New York, Freeman’s experience wasn’t so unusual. New York was the center of American slavery in the North. While there were slaves in all the colonies and while many of the colonies with light slave populations made a […]
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Teachers Strike, Round Two

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On August 30, 2018
Last year’s teacher strikes were incredibly inspiring, in part because they came out of the most conservative parts of the nation. And yesterday’s massacre of Oklahoma Republicans who refused to vote for the tax increases to pay teachers shows the real power of this movement, as decentralized and locally contextual as it presently is. Of […]
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Jet Engines?

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On August 30, 2018
J. Tyler Lovell and myself have a short piece on Chinese jet engines at the National Interest… The problem of technology mismatch, at its root, is that the thief lacks trade secrets and human capital associated with the manufacturing and assembly of a system. At the very least, this absence can make the replication of […]
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