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  • You Can’t Leave the U.S. Unless the IRS Lets You Now

    You Can’t Leave the U.S. Unless the IRS Lets You Now0

    When it comes to human migration, nearly everything we hear nowadays in relation to the United States and Europe is related to immigration into North America and Europe. Historically, however, governments have often been as concerned with emigration as they have been with immigration. This is not surprising since government have always attempted to “monopolize

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  • The Top 10 Presidential Vetoes in American History

    The Top 10 Presidential Vetoes in American History0

    President James Garfield named his beloved dog Veto. The pooch was a monstrous but lovable black Newfoundland weighing more than a hundred pounds. Congress got the message: A bad or unconstitutional bill would go straight to the Garfield doghouse. (Sadly, none ever did because Garfield served only five months in office.) The veto itself is a

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  • George Orwell Knew We’d Buy the Screens That Are Used Against Us

    George Orwell Knew We’d Buy the Screens That Are Used Against Us0

    Sales of George Orwell’s utopian novel 1984 (1949) have spiked twice recently, both times in response to political events. In early 2017, the idea of ‘alternative facts’ called to mind Winston Smith, the book’s protagonist and, as a clerk in the Ministry of Truth, a professional alternator of facts. And in 2013, the US National

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