Fixing Social Security Is Easy, but It Isn’t Simple
admin Both liberals and conservatives misunderstand how to head off insolvency.
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The Age of the Trillionaire
Inequality remains a defining challenge.
I Changed My Mind About Small-Dollar Campaign Donors
The problem with donation mobs
What Trump’s July 4 Speech Revealed
The president demanded credit for a history that he regards as a sucker’s mistake.
A President With More Control, but Less Power
<em>Slaughter </em>is a necessary corrective to our age of unaccountable bureaucracy.
Pope Leo’s July 4 Message to America Was Unmistakable
By spending the semiquincentennial mourning the plight of migrants, Leo sent a clear challenge to his native country.
How to Define America in 30 Objects
What artifacts capture 250 years of work to attain the dreams of the Declaration?
The Most Perfect Coincidence in American History
How the simultaneous deaths of two Founding Fathers cemented one of the country’s most dangerous beliefs
What J. D. Vance Once Knew
Ten years ago, the vice president wrote that one day, voters would realize the truth about Donald Trump. That day…
The Fourth of July That Saved My Family
My parents’ rescue at Entebbe taught me that freedom survives only because people choose to defend it.