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Election Day 2026
America’s Choice Between Deception and Dysfunction Americans will vote in the midterm elections on Tuesday, November 3, with control of Congress and the direction of the country at stake. Historically,…
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Death by Diversity
How Institutions Create Heroes Who Can’t Survive the Pedestal Jason Arday’s story was supposed to be inspirational — a Hollywood‑grade triumph over adversity. Instead, it became a tragedy. And not…
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California Dreaming
Why the GOP Keeps Falling for the Same Mirage California has become the political equivalent of a desert mirage: shimmering with possibility from a distance, evaporating the moment Republicans get…
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Report Cards for a Government That Promised Straight A’s
Grading of the current Republican Leaders With June signaling the beginning of Summer and more importantly the end of school…” it’s time to grade the people running the country. And…
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A Family Vacation to the California Utopia
A field report from America’s most self-congratulatory experiment. Inspired by the touching tale of Jennifer Siebel Newsom taking her children to Alabama to learn about racism, I felt moved to…
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Paul Ehrlich: The Elite’s Messiah
The Prophet Who Never Paid for Being Wrong With the death of Paul Ehlrich last week, I thought I would provide a more apt obituary than what many of our…
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Up in Smoke
Legalizing Marijuana Was a Mistake — And the Evidence Is Finally Catching Up For more than a decade, Americans were sold a comforting narrative: marijuana legalization would be harmless, profitable,…
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The Legal Lottery
The Case for Tort Reform in the United States Tort law was originally designed to compensate individuals harmed by the actions or negligence of others. Over time, it has evolved…
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The Minimum Wage Debate
The Ideal Built on a Feel‑Good Fallacy I recently got into an argument on LinkedIn about the idea of a livable wage, like this is a human right and not…
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