‘This New 12 months’s Eve, take a second to understand your regrets’
Ryan Teague Beckwith at MSNBC
New 12 months’s Eve “could as effectively be the day of regrets,” as we have been “conditioned to look again on our actions and surprise what we should always have carried out otherwise,” says Ryan Teague Beckwith. However as we “spend this present day reliving our previous errors, it is vital to do not forget that remorse additionally has a objective” as an “unavoidable side of the human situation.” Remorse is “solely doable when you might have the liberty to make your individual decisions.”
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‘Mexico’s immigration crackdown mirrors the US’
Ángel Escamilla García at The Progressive
The “idea of utilizing Mexico as an arm of the U.S. immigration enforcement will not be new,” says Ángel Escamilla García. The “criminalization and persecution of migrants by Mexican authorities in any respect ranges compelled them to wander the streets.” Mexico is being “pushed into treating migrants from different nations” within the “identical means that the U.S. has handled undocumented Mexicans for many years,” and is “permitting the identical abuses of migrants that happen on the U.S. facet of the border.”
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‘Trump’s tax cuts have been good. A flat tax can be higher.’
Steve Forbes and Stephen Moore at The Wall Road Journal
Making the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act everlasting can be a superb begin for Congress in 2025,” but it surely’s “time to take a good greater step: making a simplified flat tax for all,” say Steve Forbes and Stephen Moore. Shrinking the “private revenue and company tax charges to fifteen% would have enormous financial advantages,” and “America would out of the blue have one of many lowest tax charges on this planet, leading to trillions of {dollars} of latest capital movement.”
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‘What critics get fallacious in regards to the Ivy League’
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Philip J. Hanlon at Time
Universities have change into “scapegoats for each good and dangerous causes,” as “populist political leaders from each the far left and much proper now goal larger training as a standard enemy,” say Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Philip J. Hanlon. However the “worth of upper training must be appreciated for greater than profitable awards and creating wealth but in addition for high quality of life,” and schools “should tackle the ideological orthodoxy of political correctness which has diverted tolerance for authentic thought.”
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