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Furloughing a bunch of air traffic controllers has a pretty easy-to-predict effect on air travel: It causes delays.
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Vaccines don't cause autism. Vaccines, instead, prevent disease. Vaccines have wiped out a score of formerly deadly childhood diseases. Vaccine skepticism has helped to bring some of those diseases back from near extinction.
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It's easy for the thought-leader and executive classes to embrace a 'do what you love and love what you do' philosophy when they are wealthy enough to work hard only voluntarily, and when their jobs grant them status.
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Please don't begin to believe that the American political establishment is anything but a corrupt puppet of oligarchy.
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For most of the millions of people who watch TED videos at the office, it's a middlebrow diversion and a source of factoids to use on your friends. Except TED thinks it's changing the world, like if 'This American Life' suddenly mistook itself for Doctors Without Borders.
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An American parliamentary system with proportional representation wouldn't immediately or inexorably lead to a flourishing social democracy, but it would at least correct the overrepresentation of an ideological minority and cut down on intentional tactical economic sabotage.
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Tax expenditures for middle- and working-class Americans - like the earned income tax credit - aren't thought of as loopholes; they're just thought of as benefits.
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I think humor can be an effective way of getting the point across, but there are definitely times where I just write very earnestly.
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I don't want to be totally repetitive and doing the same thing over and over again for the rest of my life. I don't want to do that at all.
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I guess if you want me to stop writing horrible, mean takedowns of everyone, give me a really, really cushy columnist gig.
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I grew up in a politically aware household: very civically-minded, good Minnesota liberals.
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Modern political speechwriting is not a high-minded pursuit for brilliant talents.
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