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When I was a kid, my family was on food stamps. But sometimes, what we really needed was money to pay the light bill. Why not just give people cash? Right now, Congress is voting on Medicaid cuts in the hopes of balancing the budget. I have a much easier…
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Two men tried to kill President Trump within 64 days. How could the Secret Service let this happen? The decline of this once respected agency is the focus of Carol Leonnig’s 2021 book Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service. I just finished it, and let me…
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As the Biden administration pushes for a $2 trillion infrastructure bill, I dug into some numbers on federal research funding today. Most basic scientific research is funded by the federal government, including the critical advances in mRNA technologies that laid the groundwork for COVID vaccines. But this funding has fallen…
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