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Top Two “Facts” Couples Believe About Marriage Debunked by New Study of 50,000 Women

Will young people “follow the science” about marriage and divorce?

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The Most Elitist Thing You’ve Ever Heard? Or is 90% of Everything We Make Just [email protected]

Do we have a very small number of people who “know what to do” and a large number of people who think they do, but merely generate crap? That’s what venture capital Marc Andreessen tells The Wall Street Journal.

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Plastic Garbage Crisis: Prices Spike as Demand Grows Threatening Recycled-Container Cause

Is it time to profitably harvest the so-called “Pacific garbage patch” in an all new enviro-weenie episode of “The Deadliest Catch”?

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Woman Forced to Sell Daughter to Feed Family: Hunger Plagues 95% of Taliban Afghanistan

How can we separate a despotic government from its oppressed and impoverished people?

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The Great Mismatch: Why 9 Million Jobs Can’t Attract 9 Million Jobless People

The Wall Street Journal highlights this great mismatch, which has put a kink into the Beveridge Curve — traditionally used to describe the relationship between work and workers. What if the kink is permanent?

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Robot Can’t Keep a Job: Bounces Among Failed Careers, Gets Fired Everywhere

You’ve heard that robots will replace all of us eventually, but at least one high-profile droid gets fired everywhere.

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Trump Tariffs On Chinese Goods Succeed in Bringing Jobs Home…to Vietnam

Walter Russell Mead in The Wall Street Journal says the way to beat China is indirectly — by promoting the ambitions of other Asian nations.