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Lead and crime

…the impact of environmental lead on public health, including crime. I’ve been following the gasoline lead-crime story for years, ever since Kevin Drum started writing about it on his blog…

Outsourcing White Collar Jobs: How Big a Problem? The outsourcing of white collar jobs has been a hot topic lately. The chair of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors, Greg…

Kevin Drum and the lead-crime connection

…Conversely, in states where it declined quickly, crime would decline quickly.” What about the rest of the world? “ . . . lead data and crime data for Australia ….

Why are so many pundits conflating U.S. blue-collar voters’ concerns that are similar to their British counterparts’ who voted for Brexit with the separate issue of whether the Brexit vote itself will influence U.S. blue-collar voters’ votes in November? These are completely different issues.

…care a great deal about the policies they will have some reason to believe will be enacted, or, conversely, blocked, by a Democratic White House teaming with a clearly ascendant…

Forbes and the "Self-Made" Label

…leg of the famous Frisco Railroad. Billy’s father, William Dunavant, began working for T. J. White and Company at the age of twenty-one. After White retired, the company was passed…