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August 27, 2026
Contributor: Republicans and Democrats are playing the blame game as the national debt explodes
Unfunded Social Security and Medicare promises are a standing commitment to more debt and future inflation.
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August 20, 2026
Contributor: The wealth tax debate exposes the economic ignorance of politicians
Passing Prop 40 would incentivize founders to cash out rather than grow their businesses, hire more people and create more tax revenue.
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August 13, 2026
Contributor: Americans are getting a rare break from an expensive law
The Jones Act benefits a few special interests at the cost of all of us. So why won't it just die?
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August 6, 2026
Contributor: Do Republicans realize they're doing socialism out in the open?
Federal ownership of private companies has become routine for this administration, even as they busily point fingers at the left.
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July 31, 2026
Contributor: What happens when the U.S. drives away the world's best talent?
The possibility that bright young people will decide America is no longer worth the trouble should terrify us.
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July 23, 2026
Contributor: Waymos save lives. So why are some people still skeptical?
After more than 220 million miles driven throughout the U.S., the brand's vehicles have been involved in 94% fewer crashes causing serious or fatal injury compared with human drivers.
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July 16, 2026
Contributor: This next batch of elected senators will decide the fate of Social Security
We won't be able to tax our way out of this one.
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July 9, 2026
Contributor: What a 700-year-old Italian fresco can teach America today
Ambrogio Lorenzetti's visual treatise on political economy holds important lessons for Republicans and Democrats alike.
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June 25, 2026
Contributor: From London tennis courts to California, aggressive taxes always disappoint
Evidence of people fleeing their homes to avoid taxes was piling up long before California billionaires began their relocations to Nevada and Florida.
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June 11, 2026
Contributor: One economist's villainous blueprint to manage global poverty
Thomas Piketty's ambitious plans for shrinking the workweek and capping the GDP of wealthy countries would hurt not just the billionaires but every American.
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