Category: Politics
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Capital gains rates are the reason inequality keeps widening
Wages get taxed at full rates while investment income gets a discount. The capital gains gap explains more about wealth concentration than most policy debates admit.
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Operation Northwoods: why a 1962 memo became Exhibit A for truthers
A declassified 1962 Pentagon memo proposed staged attacks to justify war with Cuba. Here’s why Operation Northwoods became a permanent reference for skeptics.
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SALT caps were good policy and blue states won’t admit it
The $10,000 SALT cap mostly hit high earners in high-tax states. Repealing it would be one of the most regressive tax moves of the decade.
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Property taxes are the most regressive tax nobody talks about
Property taxes hit working homeowners and renters harder than the wealthy, with assessments that systematically favor expensive properties. Here’s the data.
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Medicare for All is the only honest fix and we keep dodging it
Every other health reform proposal preserves the parts of the U.S. system that are actually broken. Medicare for All is the only fix that addresses the structure.
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Student loan forgiveness was overdue and conservatives are wrong about who benefits
Student loan forgiveness gets framed as a giveaway to elites. The actual data tells a different story about who carries the worst debt and why relief made sense.
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The end of affirmative action was overdue and we should say so
Affirmative action in college admissions outlived its purpose and produced its own injustices. The honest case for ending it deserves to be made plainly.
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Covenant marriage is a religious overreach into civil law
Covenant marriage statutes import a specific theology into state law and make divorce harder for everyone. Here’s why that’s a problem regardless of your faith.
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The American dream of homeownership was always a marketing campaign
The idea that owning a home defines middle-class success was deliberately constructed by lenders, builders, and government policy. The history matters.