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Before confirming him, Senate Republicans should have listened to Caroline Kennedy, when she called her cousin "a predator" who enjoys "a perverse scene of despair and violence."

Turchin argues that the greatest problem repeatedly facing human civilizations is the creation of a perverse wealth pump that takes money from the common people and gives it to the rich.

Perhaps the most perverse tariff rate is the 44% applied to Myanmar, a country mired in a civil war, which has no capacity to buy more US goods.

The work and pensions secretary has set out plans to "fix the broken benefits system" and tackle the "perverse incentives" driving people to depend on welfare.

The government says this will help tackle the "perverse incentives" in the system that keep people on benefits.