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Posted on January 6, 2026January 5, 2026 by John C. Goodman

The average deductible in the ACA exchanges is $5,300.

Why intermittent fasting doesn’t always work.

Is worry over climate change finally over?

“[Covid] Vaccination reduces cases by 80 percent, the direct effect. This protection spills over to close contacts, producing a household-level indirect effect about three-fourths as large as the direct effect.”

Why do some Indian tribes have more than 6 times the household income as others? Answer: the degree of economic freedom.

Since roughly 2010, young, white unmarried women in Western societies have experienced a rapid and unusually uniform shift toward Post-Modern Left-of-Center ideologies. They are also suffering from anxiety, depression, loneliness, risk behavior, feelings of fragility, and perceived threat from the social environment. Is all this connected?  HT to Arnold Kling

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