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Baby Yourself Ivana Cortes
Category: Life in America Published: May 2015
"… The popular conception of the 'self-sufficient modern mom is a myth. It really does take a village to raise a child, so enlist yours to help take some of the pressure off. You deserve it."
 
Defining God Nancy Ellen Abrams
Category: Religion Published: May 2015
"We humans are participants in a cosmic venture: the multibillion-year evolution of complex intelligent life from nothing but particles of energy. The way we define God either can bless this extraordinary cosmic venture or slowly choke it to death."
 
Fed Failures Norbert J. Michel
Category: Economics Published: May 2015
"The Great Depression, the great stagflation, and the 2008 financial crisis (aka the Great Recession) all have occurred on the [Federal Reserve Bank's] watch."
 
Foiling Your Fear of Risk Andy Thompson
Category: Business & Finance Published: May 2015
"The process of understanding your fears, taking calculated risks, and achieving the succcess or parlaying the failure into something positive is a far more rewarding journey than a life lived without any risk-taking, regardless of the outcome."
 
Get in Line Heather Mac Donald
Category: Law & Justice Published: May 2015
"Immigration policy should be forged with one consideration in mind: The U.S.'s economic self-interest. Immigration is not a service we provide to the rest of the world."
 
Grown-Up Appreciation Todd Patkin
Category: Life in America Published: May 2015
"Now is a wonderful time to tell your mother all the things you did not know to express when you were a kid."
 
Lodge Act Soldiers: the Mural and the Portrait Dolores T. Puterbaugh
Category: Wartime America Published: May 2015
"The Lodge Act soldiers have had counterparts throughout history, but, in the U.S. wars from the mid 20th century through the current day, what sometimes is mislabeled as 'irregular' warfare includes the imperative to involve the local population."
 
Mission Accomplished? Raychelle Meyers
Category: Literary Scene Published: May 2015
"The pace of modern life means that the view from our window often is a blur, and this means that we easily can miss imporant stops - ones that would enhance and enrich our existence."
 
Needless Needling Jonathan W. Emord
Category: Medicine & Health Published: May 2015
"To ensure adequate protection of individual rights, we must ensure that no measure adopted by the state is allowed to trump the Fourteenth Amendment and, in the case of free exercise of religion against vaccination, First Amendment grounds."
 
Pointing Their Pens
Category: Political Landscape Published: May 2015
The exhibition "allows for comparisons of the ways in which cartoonists react to and interpret current events, develop their own distinct visual vocabularies, and convey their diverse political opinions."
 
Reexamining the Creator Ean W. Burchell
Category: Religion Published: May 2015
What do religious texts really teach us about God?
 
School: What Is It Good for? Cevin Soling
Category: Education Published: May 2015
"The impact of schooling can be seen in the deficiencies of the general public."
 
Secrets from Sun-Scorched Mercury Judith Braffman-Miller
Category: Science & Technology Published: May 2015
The planet's "extreme and dramatic orbital eccentricity, in combination with its rotation rate of three times in two of its years, causes some strange things to occur."
 
Stop Worrying Alex Nowrasteh , Sam Wilson
Category: Law & Justice Published: May 2015
"Immigrants are assimilating rapidly in American political life without upsetting the current ideological and political balance."
 
Subsidies in the Soup? Jane M. Orient
Category: Medicine & Health Published: May 2015
"Once again it's batter up for the Supreme Court on ObamaCare."
 
The Customer Comes First - Always Tom Panaggio
Category: Business & Finance Published: May 2015
"When many business owners hear the phrase 'going above and beyond for a client,' what they really hear is 'spend more time, resources, and effort - but get paid the same.' That is a bad way to look at taking good care of your customers."
 
The Gay March to the Supreme Court
Category: USA Yesterday Published: May 2015
The exhibition "'Speaking Out for Equality' will be the centerpiece of 'Reminder 2015: Celebrating 50 Years of LGBT History, Art, and Culture.'"
 
The ObamaCare Dilemma Michael D. Tanner
Category: Medicine & Health Published: May 2015
"… We should not lose sight of the fact that this was - and remains - a bad law. It leaves U.S. health care worse off and the American people less free. It might not be as bad as it might have been, but it is certainly bad enough."
 
The Saga of Secular Stagnation James W. Thomson
Category: Economics Published: May 2015
Theories from the Great Depression still haunt the nation as the economy continues to struggle to shake off the shackles of the Great Recession.
 
Time Zone Travel Sorin Eilersten
Category: Business & Finance Published: May 2015
"… Engaging the Five Business Time Zones model of leadership can bring new understanding of how [senior executives] spend their time as well as a design for how they ought to spend their time."
 
To Give is to Get Adam Meyerson
Category: American Thought Published: May 2015
"Each of us should think about how we can make a difference with our own charitable contributions … and our Federal and state governments should respect and defend the freedom that is vital to the great American tradition of generous giving."
 
Vietnam Victim Michael McCormick
Category: Wartime America Published: May 2015
"Many of the Marines … were taking on the thousand-yard stare. It is a vacant, distant, frightened, exhausted look that those who have been in combat for long periods of time with no sleep and little sustenance would recognize."
 
Where Is the Light for the Dark Days Ahead? Jason L. Riley
Category: National Affairs Published: May 2015
"Racism has become an all-purspose explanation for bad black outcomes, be they social or economic. … Today there is no greater impediment to black advancement than the self-pitying mindset that permeates black culture."