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Best Credit Cards for Students

May 27, 2019

WALLETHUB- The best credit cards for students can help you build credit and save big time. They offer generous rewards, 0% intro rates and low fees. And they aren’t too hard to get. You can have absolutely no credit history and still be approved for the very best credit card for students. You just need an active college or university email address and enough income or assets for the monthly minimum payments (usually around $15 for students).

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These Days, It's Not About the Polar Bears

May 12, 2019

NEW YORK TIMES- Climate science has struggled mightily with a messaging problem. The well-worn tactic of hitting people over the head with scary climate change facts has proved inadequate at changing behavior or policies in ways big enough to alter the course of global warming.

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U.S. has long sent troops to the Mexican border, but reasons vary

May 11, 2019

PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE- Donald Trump isn’t the first president to deploy troops to the Mexican border. A century and a half ago President James K. Polk sent troops over a territorial dispute that became the Mexican-American War. And a little over 100 years ago President Woodrow Wilson deployed troops at the border and into Mexico, first to protect American business interests there, and then sending more troops when violence from the Mexican Revolution began spilling into Texas and New Mexico.

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The Insanity of the Push for Rent Control

May 11, 2019

One popular definition of insanity is: doing the same thing again and again while expecting a different result. Decades of evidence show that rent controls are a bad idea, yet several Californian cities maintain their rent-control ordinances.

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