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Saving Kids’ Lives Isn’t “Woke”
Fifty-one Republican senators will have the blood of children on their hands.
Jul 18
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Chance Phillips
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Saving Kids’ Lives Isn’t “Woke”
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The Crisis of the Tax and Transfer State
If budgets are moral documents, this one is a covenant with death.
Jul 1
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Chance Phillips
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The Crisis of the Tax and Transfer State
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“I Don’t Think We Should Have Billionaires.”
What’s more important: a 417 foot yacht or one hundred thousand human lives?
Jul 1
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Chance Phillips
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“I Don’t Think We Should Have Billionaires.”
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June 2025
Municipal Grocery Stores Won’t Have Empty Shelves
Comparisons of Zohran’s proposals to Soviet shortages just show folks don’t care about facts.
Jun 28
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Chance Phillips
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Municipal Grocery Stores Won’t Have Empty Shelves
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Andrew Jackson, Not William McKinley
The best parallels for Trump’s excesses can still be found in the Jackson administration.
Jun 21
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Chance Phillips
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Andrew Jackson, Not William McKinley
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Johnson Can Still Whip Votes to Kill Kids
The rescissions package the House just passed is an unmitigated disaster.
Jun 13
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Chance Phillips
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Marcantonio and Wagner on the NLRB’s Independence
Everyone should peruse the Congressional Record more often.
Jun 10
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Chance Phillips
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Marcantonio and Wagner on the NLRB’s Independence
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May 2025
Term Limits Are Still a Bad Idea.
The answer to fears of presidential tyranny has always been a virtuous citizenry.
May 10
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Term Limits Are Still a Bad Idea.
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April 2025
Should Anyone Live in Northampton?
“This density housing ideology was designed for large cities not small towns.”
Apr 26
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Chance Phillips
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Should Anyone Live in Northampton?
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Please Save My Parking Lot!
If you want to foster any doubts you may have about democracy, watch a local debate over building multifamily housing.
Apr 18
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Young Unemployed Men on Medicaid are (Mostly) Disabled
Where are the “young men who should never be on [Medicaid] at all,” Speaker Johnson?
Apr 13
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Chance Phillips
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Young Unemployed Men on Medicaid are (Mostly) Disabled
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March 2025
I Do Not Write Well.
On why playing a solo game of exquisite corpse leads to disjointed essays.
Mar 11
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Chance Phillips
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