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The Old Trap of Genetics

I read with concern a recent opinion column published in El Mercurio that, drawing on arguments from genetics and evolutionary social scientists, concluded that progressive ideas aimed at reducing inequalities would be contrary to progress. This is not the first…

United Kingdom: Liz Truss facing a credibility crisis

Even the most pessimistic Conservative MP would have failed to predict that, one month into Liz Truss’ premiership, her position could be quite so precarious. On Monday, the prime minister sat briefly and silently in the Commons chamber while her…

3 ways a 6-3 Supreme Court would be different

If the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is replaced this year, the Supreme Court will become something the country has not seen since the justices became a dominant force in American cultural life after World War II: a decidedly conservative…