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About half the population will be happy on this Inauguration Day, the other half not so much. There must be a better way to distribute political power so that happiness (which, after all, is written ...

St. Patrick’s Day is a time to remember perhaps the greatest piece of satire ever written in the English language. Irishman Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” brilliantly skewered the heartless ...