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The United States has a trash problem. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the average American produces more than 4 pounds of garbage per day.That’s more than double the ...

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In the 1920s, when Parker developed a nationwide reputation as a quick wit, she also emerged as what Ralph Keyes, a scholar of spurious sayings, calls a flypaper figure.Others of the type include ...

Like nearly all countries in South America and North America, the United States is a net importer of food, exporting $1.28 in food for every dollar it imports.

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The new Supreme Court term opened this week and included arguments in the first of several death penalty cases already on the docket. At the same time, we’ve witnessed whiplash-inducing action ...

Mitt Romney famously said that income inequality is a subject best discussed in "quiet rooms."Michael Lind, author of the new book Land of Promise, says that if people of Romney’s economic class ...

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