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Rather than address unaffordability with another costly Band-Aid, politicians should consider reducing the taxes and regulations that are at the root of our problem.
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Marc Joffe, The Mercury News, 11 June 2024
That public health information can help protect people from increasingly frequent disasters and can even spur policies that address the reliance on fossil fuels at the root of global warming.
—Rebecca Hersher, NPR, 10 June 2024
Apart India’s and Israel’s historic perceptions of colonial ideology and religious nationalism are at the root of their longstanding divergence.
—Manjari Chatterjee Miller, Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
So, if bad brain chemistry isn’t at the root of chronic depression, what is?
—Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 23 May 2024
Of course, that’s the typical reaction whenever someone suggests, as Trone did, that there are complex problems at the root of crime — mental illness, poverty, drug addiction — that more policing won’t solve.
—Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 9 May 2024
Find out what’s at the root of his thinking on this topic.
—Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 13 May 2024
Vodou was at the root of the revolution that led Haiti to become the world’s first free Black republic in 1804, a religion born in West Africa and brought across the Atlantic by enslaved people.
—Dánica Coto, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2024
Before the panic about the role of outsiders in the protests, the complaint was that left-wing professors were at the root of student anger.
—Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 8 May 2024
Marc Joffe, The Mercury News, 11 June 2024
That public health information can help protect people from increasingly frequent disasters and can even spur policies that address the reliance on fossil fuels at the root of global warming.
—Rebecca Hersher, NPR, 10 June 2024
Apart India’s and Israel’s historic perceptions of colonial ideology and religious nationalism are at the root of their longstanding divergence.
—Manjari Chatterjee Miller, Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
So, if bad brain chemistry isn’t at the root of chronic depression, what is?
—Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 23 May 2024
Of course, that’s the typical reaction whenever someone suggests, as Trone did, that there are complex problems at the root of crime — mental illness, poverty, drug addiction — that more policing won’t solve.
—Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 9 May 2024
Find out what’s at the root of his thinking on this topic.
—Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 13 May 2024
Vodou was at the root of the revolution that led Haiti to become the world’s first free Black republic in 1804, a religion born in West Africa and brought across the Atlantic by enslaved people.
—Dánica Coto, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2024
Before the panic about the role of outsiders in the protests, the complaint was that left-wing professors were at the root of student anger.
—Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 8 May 2024
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