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...time pay? Courts are slow, excessively technical, and intimidating to most people. To hire a lawyer to handle the case would usually cost more than most disp ...these arbitration clauses are usually buried in a sea of boilerplate, many people who are subject to them do not realize that they exist or understand their

... there are essentially very few that haven’t become loan sharks for poor people. The promise of microfinance was this: that poor people are budding entrepreneurs, who simply don’t have access to the capital re

MOOCs will “allow people who lack access to world-class learning—because of financial, geographic ...narrative—about our current education system’s failure to train enough people to fill the “jobs of the future.” But what exactly are those jobs? Are

...et of its logical implications. What distinguishes libertarians from other people, on this view, is not the basic moral principles they accept, but the consi 2 See Matt Kibbe, Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto

serve this principle by insulating people from each other, so that they may do as they wish on their own land, free f ...n, which are notoriously difficult to trace to their source and which harm people and ecosystems cumulatively and thus interactively rather than all at once

... a morally heinous ideal. It is a way for us to justify the abandonment of people who — we insist — were given opportunities and squandered them. Even if ...y of opportunity promises to help people like Will. It promises to abandon people like Chuckie.

...oosevelt and Lyndon Johnson to Paul Ryan. I believe it is often invoked by people who really care about equality of outcome exactly because equality of oppor ...volve assistance to the poor until there are no more poor. This means that people who wish to reduce inequality of outcome can say they are reducing inequali

...umes, the class of plants that includes peanuts and soybeans, a hazard for people with allergies. ... at least 72 people in 16 states was traced to a tainted supplement. Three people required liver transplants, and one woman died.

...ture in strict laws imposing burdens on smaller businesses. It is easy for people to talk past each other when talking about capture. It is hard to pin the p

...blished, it appeared in vanity journals. Other clinics simply told her, “People get dramatically better.” ... them: “You ought to be ashamed for charging $40,000 a shot. You prey on people like my brother-in-law who is desperate for help.”

...e. "Let’s hope privileged billionaires don’t start strapping up young people to their veins to get imagined rejuvenation on the basis of their misunders ... … that is one that … again, it’s one of these very odd things where people had done these studies in the 1950s and then it got dropped altogether. I t

[Translation: It’s a good thing that, as far as anyone knows, none of these people have been operating on live human bodies.]

.../did_you_notice_the_the_people_who_seem_to_believe/ Did you notice the the people who seem to believe in the efficiency of voluntary charity alone to the nee

... has Trump in fourth — behind Gary Johnson AND Jill Stein — with young people]

...provides financial incentives to harm and even kill people. Just ask those people who say they have been victimized by cigarettes, predatory lenders, Volkswa ...provides financial incentives to harm and even kill people. Just ask those people who say they have been victimized by cigarettes, predatory lenders, Volkswa

.... The other party, by founding government altogether on the consent of the people, suppose that there is a kind of original contract, by which the subjects h ... at first, associate them together, and subject them to any authority. The people, if we trace government to its first origin in the woods and deserts, are t

... turn requires the erasure (mentally and usually in brutal reality) of the people already living beyond the frontier and drawing their sustenance from the la ...freedom, used to justify their deprivation of those rights from indigenous people. Similarly, in his much-vaunted Letters on Toleration, he managed to find r

"Other People Need To Contribute: But Everything That Touches Your Grimy, Little Mitts Is

...12 riot at the Adams County Correctional Center in Mississippi in which 20 people were injured and a correctional officer killed. That incident, according to

... at risk of the costs and misery of preventable infectious diseases. These people are your friends, neighbors, and fellow citizens who refuse to have themsel There would be no argument against allowing people to refuse vaccination if they and their families would suffer alone the con