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GLOBALIZATION.
February 4, 2017 As America's major political parties look inward, globalization continues. Trade deals that the United States abandons will be taken up by some other major power - likely China. By the IMF's account, China's GDP as measured by purchasing power parity, surpassed the United States' two years ago. So what exactly will ignoring the world accomplish... |
INWARD.
February 4, 2017 Hot ones, cold ones - big ones, small ones - long ones, short ones - secret ones. We've fought a lot of wars, and they've varied in both form and outcome. There's one being waged today, and it's high time we ask ourselves whether it's worth fighting. Government resources and the time of American citizens are finite. In an era in which domestic politics are so divisive, wouldn’t it more economical to look inward... |
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SCHOOLED.
February 8, 2017 Public schools are easy targets - they're expensive, unionized, and sometimes perilously ineffective. But without them, the middle class would erode further, and people would either be born wealthy or grow up as wage slaves... |
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