Joe Carter is a Senior Editor at the Acton Institute. Joe also serves as an editor at the The Gospel Coalition, a communications specialist for the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, and as an adjunct professor of journalism at Patrick Henry College. He is the editor of the NIV Lifehacks Bible and co-author of How to Argue like Jesus: Learning Persuasion from History's Greatest Communicator (Crossway).
Posts by Joe Carter
July 13, 2017
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Earlier today Senate Republicans released the text of the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA), their budget reconciliation proposal to repeal-and-replace the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare).
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July 13, 2017
The Moral Case for Free Trade
Clark Packard,
RealClearPolicy
Make no mistake: The facts are on the side of free trade. There’s a reason it receives nearly universal support from professional economists — a notoriously disagreeable bunch — and “Smoot-Hawley” has become a four-letter word.
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July 12, 2017
Note: This is the post #24 in a weekly series of explanatory posts on the officials and agencies included in the President’s Cabinet. See the series introduction here.
Cabinet position: EPA Administrator
Department: U.S.
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July 12, 2017
“The case of 11-month-old Charlie Gard continues to garner international attention and pleas for his life from Donald Trump and Pope Francis,” says Anne Rathbone Bradley in this week’s Acton Commentary.
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July 12, 2017
New startup challenge combines a Silicon Valley mindset with Catholic social teachings
Kelsey Dallas,
Deseret News
Pope Francis has a notable new ally in his efforts to protect the environment: a team of investors mixing a Silicon Valley mindset with concern for God’s creation.
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July 11, 2017
Note: This is post #40 in a weekly video series on basic microeconomics.
In an effort to reduce pollution, the government tried two policy prescriptions under the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, notes Alex Tabarrok of Marginal Revolution University.
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July 11, 2017
Hindu-Americans Don’t Vote Republican
Akhilesh Pillalamarri,
The American Conservative
Hindu-Americans are a high-income, family-values oriented group, yet vote for Democrats in overwhelming numbers. This paradox can be explained by the nature of Hinduism as a religion, India’s historical social, cultural, and agricultural patterns, and India’s experience with British colonialism—all factors that influence Hindu-Americans to vote for the Democratic Party.
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July 10, 2017
In one of the worst opinion pieces published in the
New York Times in recent memory, Farzon A. Nahvi, an emergency medicine physician, argues the free market cannot provide health care because some patients arrive at the hospital unconscious:
As an emergency medicine physician in a busy urban hospital, I have patients brought to me unconscious several times a day.
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July 10, 2017
How the Poor May be Saving More for Retirement than the Rich
Andrew G. Biggs,
AEI
Who’s better prepared for retirement: a $12,000 worker who saves nothing on top of Social Security, or a $100,000 worker who maxes out his 401(k)?
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July 07, 2017
There’s an old proverb that says, “We must eat a peck of dirt before we die.” What this means is that just as no one can escape eating a certain amount of dirt on their food, everyone must endure a number of unpleasant things in his or her lifetime.
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