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Trump is in no way anti-immigration.

No, if you think that's the problem, you're part of the problem.

He already bought the WaPo as his personal blog.

California has millions of illegal aliens. You'd think that we should wait and see what happens after they're deported before we go crazy trying to solve a supposed undersupply of …

Hedging is about protecting your downside. 100% long funds like your index fund may do well in a rising market, but when the market declines you may find yourself wishing you had a…

A better and more meaningful question than whether the Dow is at an all-time high is whether the US economy is at its all-time largest. And it is. It usually is, in fact, and when …

Not at all. As a scientist I say we must fight for uncertainty. The word "fact" has no place in science.

Maybe, but for those of us who aren't experts on constitutional law, it's difficult to ascertain exactly who is in the right, we have to decide which self-proclaimed experts to bel…

The argument that Trump is breaking the emoluments clause by (for instance) having foreign governments paying market rents as tenants in his building is ridiculously thin. Here's t…

Maybe, if you can turn them into an atheist. Challenge them on why they believe in one particular religion instead of the thousands of others, and force them to open their minds. O…

Fair enough, but the EPA twitter account isn't exactly mission-critical for anyone, it can afford to not tweet for a little while. Also I don't think it's particularly ironic that …

Or more likely, if you're just a super-hater of Trump and/or Republicans and feel the need to claim that every single decision is terrible, disastrous, stupid etc. Let's face it, r…

What's with the "actually" in the title?

Why are you blaming Trump? Conspicuously absent in the article is an answer to the question of who actually sent that email.

It seems to me that if a group of people did come across some new land and decide to vote on what to do with it, they'd immediately vote to subdivide it amongst themselves. Leave s…

A wall one mile long to protect one guy from trespassers is reasonable but a wall two thousand miles long to protect 250 million people is ridiculous, according to Zuck.

"More teachers" is a naive solution too. It's what teachers' unions are always pushing for, but it's not well correlated with improved outcomes. One thing that does work: segregati…

But the biggest cities in the world have problems with foot traffic and subway traffic. I'm not sure that they still employ "pushers" in Tokyo but they very well might. And that's …

If Parliament refuses to carry out the people's wishes, would this be a case in which the Queen would be justified in stepping in?

But an acre of land in the suburbs costs hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars, whereas an acre of land in a normal agricultural area far from a city costs a few thousand do…

Well, it's not that equivalent a situation. I'd feel personally responsible for the particular set of individuals killed by the genie rather than some other set of individuals. Tha…

I think you're making an error there somewhere, possibly mixing calorie yields per year with human requirements per day. Divide that by 365 for a more realistic estimate. About 60 …

I'm a pretty big fan of realclearpolitics, which makes a point of alternating between links from opposite perspectives in its news section, often making for amusing juxtapositions.…

The most land-efficient crop you can grow in the US is corn, at 15 million calories per acre. (In warmer climates sugar cane edges it out with about 17 million calories per acre). …