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5 months ago
The Tragedy of Urban Renewal: The destruction and survival of a New York City neighborhood
In 1949, President Harry Truman signed the Housing Act, which gave federal, state, and local governments unprecedented power to shape residential l...
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5 months ago
A Declaration of Interdependence: a crowdsourced short film
directed by @tiffanyshlain, music by Moby
A DECLARATION OF INTERDEPENDENCE is a crowdsourced short film by the filmmakers behind the feature film ...
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@Beljora Sorry, uses the language of the Declaration of Independence, rather.
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6 months ago
The FDA's New and Improved Cigarette Warning Labels
The US Food and Drug Administration recently unveiled nine graphic warning labels that will appear on US cigarette packs in 2012. Some of the more ...
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@jeffthecoder It's also the plot of Thank You for Smoking.
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7 months ago
What We Saw at the Save Our Schools Rally in Washington D.C.
On July 30th, 2011, teachers, parents and advocates such as actor Matt Damon, author Jonathan Kozol, and historian Diane Ravitch gathered for the S...
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@Search111add You're assuming people would donate at the same rate if they knew their donation wasn't going directly to their child's school or to their alma mater.
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7 months ago
Happy 99th Birthday, Milton Friedman! A tribute to the late, great economist
There's no way to appreciate fully the contributions of Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman (1912-2006), who would have turned 99 years o...
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@eirefrance We could argue the reasons, but I'll just assume you're right for the sake of argument... Whatever the reason, we have empirical evidence that whether in times of high taxes or low, government revenue as a percentage of GDP remains about the same. So lowering taxes can't be blamed for...
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7 months ago
Carmageddon or Lameageddon? Billion Dollar Project Isn't Apocalyptic After All
Did you hear about Carmageddon? It turns out the apocalyptic shutdown of the nation's busiest freeway, the 405, wasn't apocalyptic at all.
Media h...
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The Mayans predicted this...
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8 months ago
Stephen Cox on Libertarian Literature and Prisons as Failed Planned Societies
Stephen Cox sat down with Reason.tv to talk about libertarian literature and why prisons are the best example of a failure in planning societies.
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@glennd7962 There's also the added bonus that, in the event that we're wrong and libertarian governance is actually terrible, we would quickly find that out aswell. We 'believe' libertarianism is better, but we have no way of proving it... We can't compare what America would be like under Ron Pau...
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2:55 That commercial is actually PROUD that shelter for human beings was torn down and replaced with trees and grass.