Extras
The Straight Dope by Cecil Adams, crossword by Matt Jones, News of The Weird
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What can presidential executive orders do, and are they powerful?
As direct and functional as an executive order can be, its legal nature is surprisingly fuzzy
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Why do English singers seem to lose their accent when they sing?
What the authors found was the Beatles always tended to mix and match UK and U.S. consonants
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Is a border adjustment tax really just a plain old tariff?
Is a border adjustment tax really just a plain old tariff? What’s the difference between a border adjustment tax and a tariff? The New York Times says a BAT of […]
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Can a crazy president be removed from office?
I’m starting to see a pattern: it’s almost as though readers have suddenly become preoccupied with the notion of a president being psychologically unfit to serve
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If everything else is more expensive in Europe, why do we pay more for healthcare?
In the end, our health-insurance system doesn’t look too different from what you’d get if you’d set out to design one as expensive as you could manage