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Trump’s Unkept Promises Come Due in November
Donald Trump won a second term on a short list of specific, popular promises. Three weeks before the midterms, voters who believed him are jumping ship.
Oct 19
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Connor Boyack
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Make Congressional Seats Cheap Again
Thomas Massie’s defeat set a spending record. The deeper scandal is how few seats there are to buy.
Oct 12
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Connor Boyack
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The Silent Theft of Your Paycheck
Your family’s paycheck, measured in gold, has shrunk 78% in fifty years.
Oct 5
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Connor Boyack
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September 2026
What If the Experts Can't Do Their Own Homework?
A landmark audit of social science asked the simplest question imaginable, and the academic community got an “F.”
Sep 28
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Connor Boyack
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Tariffs and Tehran: Trump’s Self-Inflicted Wounds
Who bears the blame when Republicans suffer defeat in the midterms?
Sep 21
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Connor Boyack
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Big AI Wants World Government. Say No.
An AI crisis was announced, amplified, and pitched within the span of just a few days. But could the controversy be manufactured for other reasons?
Sep 14
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Connor Boyack
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Labor Day? Why not Market Day?
America takes today off to honor “labor.” The story we tell about that holiday gets the economics, and much of the history, backward.
Sep 7
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Connor Boyack
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August 2026
Houston, Republicans have a tariff problem
A new Texas poll finds Trump’s tariffs underwater with independents and Hispanics. The midterms will notice.
Aug 31
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Connor Boyack
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The Reckoning No Registrar Can Hide
The University of Michigan will hide its freshmen’s first-semester grades to protect their mental health. The better question is why so many arrive…
Aug 24
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Connor Boyack
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A Warehouse of Servers, a Fight About Everything Else
The fight over data centers looks like a war on the future. Underneath sits an old argument about who pays for what a neighbor builds, and who gets to…
Aug 17
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Connor Boyack
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Schooled Into Socialism
Michigan’s Senate primary confirms an old pattern: socialism has always been a movement of the credentialed, marketed in the name of workers who often…
Aug 10
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Connor Boyack
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The Freedom to State the Obvious
Sophie Cunningham's WNBA coach says exclusion is never the answer. Her entire profession disagrees.
Aug 3
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Connor Boyack
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