With the labor participation rate at 50-year lows and millions of Americans no longer counted as unemployed, many Americans are convinced the American Dream is in need of a bailout. But what does that look like? “Radical realism” — not socialism — may very well be the answer.
As America celebrates 250 years, the Supreme Court moved to affirm over 100 years of court rulings in which citizenship is guaranteed for those born on U.S. soil, with few exceptions. But is no-questions-asked "birthright citizenship" really what the framers of the 14th Amendment intended? A closer look at the exclusions they carved out tells a different story — one overcome by baked-in administrative assumptions that shaped 19th Century thought, while creating 21st Century conflicts.
New Year's Day 2015 marked the 20th anniversary of NAFTA's implementation. The North American Free Trade Agreement became infamous when independent presidential candidate Ross Perot remarked in 1992 that the passage of NAFTA would create a "giant sucking sound" of American jobs lost to Canada and Mexico. NAFTA, however, is hardly in history's rear-view mirror. It …
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