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Immigration Enforcement Needs ‘You’re Fired’

Mark Krikorian--In the months since President Donald Trump sent “Border Czar” Tom Homan to de-escalate the situation in Minneapolis, some immigration hawks have feared that the administration is

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Tim Cook Built Apple in China, but Beijing Owns the Keys

By Geoffrey Cain--Tim Cook stood inside Apple’s newest Shanghai store, the second-largest Apple Store in the world, and was explicit about the company’s bargain with China. “There’s no supply chain in
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Data Center Proposals Rock Trump Country

By Tonya Nickol -- Small towns are often defined by what they are not. They are not overcrowded, not overly industrialized, and not dominated by large corporate development. Instead, they are places
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The Patchwork Myth

By @jareddhayden -- The issue of federalism has once again emerged in public debate as the Trump administration and industry allies push for national regulation of artificial intelligence platforms

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Give Moms—and High Chairs—a Seat at the Family Policy Table

By @IvanaDGreco -- The right-of-center views itself as the protector of families. GOP leaders have dubbed it “the party of parents.” A new Heritage Foundation report is titled, “Saving America by
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Are There Any Job Cuts Tech CEOs Won’t Blame on AI?

By @DrewHolden360 -- Tech layoffs are everywhere, with CEOs announcing that hundreds or thousands of jobs must be jettisoned. The given cause is always the same: artificial intelligence. The

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Bad Bets

By @juderusso94 -- Few social changes have come with the swiftness and lack of opposition that mass gambling liberalization has. As recently as 2017, most forms of wagering were forbidden or heavily
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The Economics of Vice

By Brad Littlejohn -- Today, America is living through a new golden age—for vice merchants, that is. Gambling, once confined to seedy establishments in dark alleys, or cordoned off in swanky but
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Just Abolish the H-1B Visa

By @sam_silvestro -- There is a certain nostalgia in the bourgeois Boomer mind for the era when great statesmen, like Bob Dole and Ted Kennedy, could vociferously debate critical issues on the Senate

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