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Tariff ‘Mission Accomplished’ hype is just that

Americans don’t live by headlines and press releases, and they don’t live in the macro economy either. Declaring “Mission Accomplished” for the macro economy won’t convince people they’re better off in their own micro-economies when they’re not.



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The right to vote doesn’t end with our service

Right now, in 15 states and Washington, D.C., independent voters — including hundreds of thousands of veterans — are shut out of primary elections. The bipartisan Let America Vote Act (LAVA) bill would ensure that all federal primaries are open to independent voters.

Germany’s growing European leadership helps US

In very concrete terms, Germany is demonstrating leadership of Europe and the larger Atlantic area alliance in creating the path to greater defense spending. This expands support of Ukraine in the continuing brutal war with Russia.

The post-Cold War world is finally clear

The world today therefore has both the feature of being a multipolar world — as opposed to bipolar (U.S. and USSR) or unipolar (the U.S. in the 1990s) — with more than two major powers and the feature of having a clash between two very different political/economic systems. 

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