The SAVE America Act just passed the House. Ostensibly, this is a commonsense bill to preserve the integrity of our elections. Democracies don’t always produce the best leaders, but well-structured democracies accurately reflect the electorate’s will, which makes them surprisingly effective ...
Editor’s note: This is the first of four parts. American foreign policy after World War II was dominated by the Cold War, which was seen as an existential battle with the Soviet Union. The United States created the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe and keep it from going communist, which was ...
Republicans claim to be fiscal conservatives. That may have been true at one time, but that hasn’t been so for decades. The change began in the 1970s, when Jude Wanniski came up with the “two Santas” analysis of budgetary politics. Wanniski argued that the Democrats win voters by ...
Cryptocurrency, created in 2009, was designed to be a system of payments that could not be traced, and as might be expected from the design, the early users were mostly people doing business that they wanted to keep secret (mostly criminal activity, though political activists working under ...
Economic inequality has grown in the U.S. since the 1980s. From 1970 to 2018, the share of income going to upper income households increased from 29% to 48%, while the share going to middle income households fell from 62% to 43%. CEOs get paid 344 times what the typical worker makes compared to ...
As tax season approaches and the Republicans in the House passed a budget that includes a massive tax cut that will benefit the wealthiest members of society, it is appropriate to examine taxes. Historically, the federal government funded itself by selling land, imposing tariffs on imported ...
