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Do Activists Want Domestic Violence To Increase During the Pandemic?
A contradiction is grabbing the narrative on domestic violence (DV) during the coronavirus lockdown: a decline in police reports on DV means the rate is increasing and more government is needed. A cynic might wonder if DV experts want to stoke the panic that drives...
Three Ways the Coronavirus Is Benefitting Political Decentralization
The coronavirus pandemic, and resulting government response, has created one of the greatest disruptions to daily life in modern American history. With much of the country now focused on “reopening,” pundits and policymakers have focused their attention on what the...
New York Times Hurts Survivors With Falsehoods About Domestic Violence
The dominant narrative on domestic violence (DV) during COVID-19 hurts survivors, like me. Decades ago, I was blinded in my left eye by a man who said he loved me even as his fist hit my face. I’ve tried to make sense of that insanity ever since. Why did he do it? Why...
Why Demographics is not Destiny
“Demographics is destiny” is a phrase uttered in some rightwing circles and quietly believed in some leftwing ones. In political terms, the phrase suggests either cultural or genetic determinism, or both—namely, that people of a particular culture, ethnicity, or race...
News Roundup 4/3/20
US News Over 6.6 Americans filed for unemployment this week. That is nearly double last week’s record-setting number. New York City police are arresting people for failing to social distance. Once arrested, they are put in a holding cell with dozens of other people....
No Case for Closed Borders
Anyone who thinks the coronavirus pandemic destroys the case for open borders hasn't thought the matter through terribly far. Bryan Caplan explains here. Just to give a taste, in the name of excluding viruses from our shores, the government would have to stop...
Judge Says Conditions at U.S. Border Holding Cells Violated the Constitution
Newsweek: A federal judge in Arizona has ruled that conditions at U.S. border holding cells operated by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency violated the Constitution. In a case first launched in 2015 over conditions at Tucson sector holding facilities, U.S....
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