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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.

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Economist Betsey Stevenson: Dads Seeking Time With Kids Will Drive Workplace Change

Nov 5, 2021

In a trend that has surprised social scientists, fathers are seeking better work/life balance and rejecting their pre-pandemic status as secondary parents – a movement that’s good for moms, too.

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Why Did the Taliban Take Over Afghanistan So Fast?

Aug 18, 2021

The Taliban was strategic in its use of violence, exercising restraint to influence military assessments of their capabilities in order to encourage more rapid withdrawals.

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Libertarians and the Vaccine: Give Me Liberty and Give Them Death

Aug 9, 2021

If libertarians wish to maintain their self-centered fixation on their own freedoms without considering others, let them do so — in indefinite quarantine from the rest of us.

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How Greedy Corporations Turn the Black American Dream into a Nightmare

May 24, 2021

The plight of white blue-collar workers is well-known, but Blacks in that category were feeling the squeeze long before their white counterparts.