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August 2021 Quickie - Power Is as Power Does: Immigration, Budgets and Drones

August 14, 2021

Momma always said, "Power is as power does." With Democrats in charge, Bernie managing the budget and endless wars ending, it's a new day in...

Economics

The Economics of Racism.

August 07, 2021

Progressives continually lose the debate on issues of institutional poverty, structural inequality and systemic racism because they’re loaded with...

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Foreign Affairs

Oh, Canada.

July 31, 2021

They look like us. Sound (mostly) like us. And they know everything about us. And yet, we know precious little about our best friends up north. That...

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Best of: UNFTR Sketches.

July 24, 2021

We put this together right before a brief vacation, so we’re running something special today to highlight the lighter side of UNFTR: our sketches. To...

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Civil Liberties

Occupy at 10.

July 17, 2021

We’re nearly 10 years on from Occupy Wall Street. We wanted to get a jump on the retrospective before every mainstream news outlet hops on and gives...

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Economics

Modern Monetary Theory.

July 10, 2021

Few concepts get under the skin of traditional economists, Wall Street executives and academics as Modern Monetary Theory, or MMT. We’ve been...

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Stupid White Guy Olympics.

July 03, 2021

In today’s Quickie, we celebrate the upcoming Olympics with our own field of challengers for the nation’s top Stupid White Guy! Exciting times. Our...

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How to Talk About the Trump Years.

June 26, 2021

While the ink is still wet on the Trump era, we’re going to talk through what the real legacy might be before revisionists get a hold of it one way...