El riesgo moral ocurre cuando un acuerdo que las personas hacen para actuar en concierto para su beneficio mutuo resulta en un incentivo para que uno de ellos actúe inmoralmente. El caso clásico es el seguro. Cuando una compañía de seguros contrata con un…
Durante un año he estado expresando mi temor de que un Vladimir Putin desesperado finalmente recurra a una opción nuclear de algún tipo en Ucrania. A los rusos siempre les dan patadas en la cola en los conflictos militares, y el hecho de que hayan sido...
“I would love to see a world in which Boy Scouts make handing out naloxone as their Eagle Scout project,” said addiction scholar Stefan Kertesz in the Washington Post. Naloxone prevents opioid overdose deaths — which is a good thing….
Los senadores estadounidenses Ted Cruz (R-TX) y Joe Manchin (D-WV) merecen crédito por su legislación bipartidista para evitar que la Comisión de Seguridad de Productos del Consumidor (CPSC) gaste dinero de los contribuyentes para regular las estufas de gas. Su medida tiene un solo problema: es demasiado agradable….
Politico published a piece Thursday that concludes, on the basis of interviews with 12 of her former campaign staffers, that spiritual-author-turned-Democratic-presidential-candidate Marianne Williamson — the one who always preached about the need for a return to love and forgiveness in…
The nation needs the Congressional investigations, but they are, I caution again, predictably un-strategic, even awkward. Republicans stupidly sold the hearings as conclusive (thus inorganic), accordingly seen as partisan payback, not transparent good government. Lacking choreography, they appeal mainly to…
Cases of clergy sexual assault continue to wrack the Catholic Church, and when accusations involve notable Church figures, the scandals unfold in full view of the public. Slovenian priest Fr. Marko Ivan Rupnik, SJ, gained wide acclaim for his beautiful…
So, educating students about the dangers of communism is racist? Who knew? Virginia Republicans recently introduced House Bill 1816 which would have declared November 7 — the anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution — Victims of Communism Day. The bill…
It’s almost hard to remember how frantically and nonsensically people were acting in 2020, isn’t it? No cancer screenings were allowed for months. There was no in-person public schooling. There were no holidays with family. Some folks were even hugging…
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