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  • Trump’s Tax Breaks Are Not a ‘Gift’ for the Rich

    Trump’s Tax Breaks Are Not a ‘Gift’ for the Rich0

    President Trump’s tax plan calls for a reduction in top individual tax rates as well as a dramatic reduction in the overall corporate tax rate. This move has unsurprisingly drawn criticism. Detractors of Trump’s tax plan argue that it favors the rich at the expense of the poor. However, their arguments often rely on rhetoric

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  • Trump’s Right: The West Must First Have the Will to Survive

    Trump’s Right: The West Must First Have the Will to Survive0

    By now, I think most of us are aware that President Donald Trump is no great student of history or ideas. But he does give voice to some statements that are pregnant with truth, even if perhaps neither a deep understanding nor practice of that truth is exemplified in Trump’s personal life. One of these

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  • Trump’s Idea of Using Military Resources for Border Wall Isn’t Unprecedented

    Trump’s Idea of Using Military Resources for Border Wall Isn’t Unprecedented0

    The military has been involved before in putting up a barrier along the U.S.-Mexican border without explicit authorization from Congress, according to a 2009 government report. President Donald Trump recently proposed to draw from the $700 billion appropriated for the military for funds to build the border wall, which comes with a price tag estimated

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  • Trump’s Big Bet on Career and Technical Education

    Trump’s Big Bet on Career and Technical Education0

    President Donald Trump has proposed one of the largest increases in funding for career and technical education in recent history. As a education policy researcher who studies the economic and employment impact of career and technical education in high school, I believe this proposal has a lot of potential to open up new job opportunities,

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  • Trump’s ‘If By Whiskey’ Speech

    Trump’s ‘If By Whiskey’ Speech0

    In 1952, Mississippi State Senator Noah Sweat famously gave a speech on the subject of prohibition, which was still highly debated in the South. Promising not to shy away from controversy, he spoke: If when you say whiskey you mean the devil’s brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster, that defiles innocence, dethrones reason, destroys

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  • Trump’s Twitter Might Cost Him His Chance At Reelection

    Trump’s Twitter Might Cost Him His Chance At Reelection0

    Politics cannot be divorced from culture. Many people are wedded to the misperception that, in a democratic society, we elect leaders who are somehow better than the ordinary voter. In fact, democratic societies tend to elect leaders who are, in most ways, a reflection of the voters themselves. Since political leadership in a republic is only as strong as

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