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Why Politicians Keep Campaigning on Culture

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By John Pavlus Verified
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"It's the economy, stupid." For the past three decades, this phrase has been a reliable shorthand for describing what voters really care about. But these days, political rhetoric often centers on cultural flashpoints like religion or immigration instead of the economy. This tendency to highlight cultural issues over economic ones is surprising, as voters consistently rank the economy among the most important concerns.
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The Prescription for Better Health Insurance? Competition.

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By John Pavlus Verified
| Yahoo Finance Verified
The United States is famous for its market-based health-insurance system, where—nominally, at least—many private companies compete and customers have choices. In reality, U.S. health-insurance markets are dominated by a small group of insurers—or sometimes just one. According to Kellogg professor of strategy Amanda Starc and Martin Gaynor of Carnegie Mellon University, the largest insurer in any given state enjoys 64 percent of market share on average.
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Is AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons?

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By John Pavlus Verified
| Quanta Magazine Verified
Celsius Pictor for Quanta Magazine Introduction I’ll just say it: What the hell is going on with AI “reasoning”? Sorry for the air quotes. That punctuational side-eye was more common in 2024, when the specially trained cousins of LLMs now known as “large reasoning models,” or LRMs, were still new. Nowadays it may seem downright churlish, though, given that a “general-purpose reasoning model” from OpenAI solved a famous open mathematical research problem in one shot in May 2026.
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