The Best Laid Plans is about humility: How little we know, how prone we are to make errors and how to improve our thinkiing about politics and policy. Leaning libertarian.
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What is hate? Who decides?
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Republicans were frustrated by Silicon Valley when tech industry CEOs testified before to a House subcommittee during the summer of 2020. The big tech companies favored Democrats, conservatives complained....
Spying and lying at the Southern Poverty Law Center
The Southern Poverty Law Center tracks hate groups including the KKK (Source: Wikimedia Commons_
When the Justice Department last spring accused the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) of wire fraud, money laundering and making false statem...
Mike Bloomberg's gift to Big Tobacco
This graphic takes a little explaining, so bear with me. It tells a story about tobacco policy, smoking rates and the malign influence of billionaire philanthropist Michael Bloomberg.
Let’s begin with news that Philip Morris International...
The life you can save
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In 1971, as many thousands of people were dying from a famine in what is now Bangladesh, the philosopher Peter Singer wrote an essay called Famine, Affluence, and Morality If it is in our power to prevent...
Please, not a moral panic over sports betting
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I’m not a gambler. I’m lousy at poker and blackjack. Casinos depress me. State lotteries strike me as a waste of money.
But I recently signed up for an account at the online betting app FanDuel, made a $...
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Marc Gunther has been a reporter for 50 years. A senior writer at Fortune Magazine and the author of four books. Marc has contributed to publications including the NYTimes, Washington Post, the Chronicle of Philanthropy and Reason.
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