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The Low Cost of (Some) Labor in Michigan

    Democrats hype themselves as friends of workers and of labor.  But there’s one case—in Michigan of all places!—where they seem ready to favor labor at below minimum-wage rules. In fact, they have no labor rules at all. I’m talking about the labor connected with...
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  President Joe Biden’s administration wants to make it harder for life-saving pregnancy resource centers to obtain taxpayer dollars. It is part of a broader attack by the Democratic Party on the nonprofit groups that help families choose life and provide them with the...
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  Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman’s new book What Are Children For? On Ambivalence and Choice is an eye-opening study of the contemporary mindset that regards children today as at best useful goods and at worst positive bads. Published before the controversy over J.D....
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Into the Silence

    There is something about the deep darkness of a cave that brings a hush over everyone who enters. Last week, in our ongoing effort to explore our new home in the Southwest, we visited Carlsbad Caverns National Park. Seeing the Caverns had been on my husband’s wish...
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