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Fair taxation doesn’t send millionaires fleeing cities or states

Sociologist Gregory D. Squires argues that it’s a myth that taxes drive millionaires to flee cities and states that tax them. An abridgment of Squire’s...

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Political Violence within America and Iran – Differences and Similarities

Domestic political violence begins by defining who the enemy is Donald Trump is the only president to have faced three highly visible assassination attempts. Trump and some...

The SAVE Act is to save the Republican Party from defeat

“The most restrictive voting bill ever passed by Congress” is how Michael Waldman, CEO of the Brennan Center for Justice, describes the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE)...

Trump Will Not Win His Iran War – Because there will be no Regime Change 

Our military’s overwhelming tactical victories do not amount to a winning strategy. Even though Trump told the nation in his April televised address that...

Trump and the Roman Crassus share the same hubris in invading Iran

Two thousand years separate the Roman Marcus Licinius Crassus in his failed attempt to invade Iran from President Donald J. Trump’s faltering current military...

The Kennedy Center was hijacked into Trump’s Animal Farm

Even in war, we need to protect our democratic culture. While Trump’s Iranian War may continue to capture our much-needed attention, it is essential that...

Conservatives Be Cautious: Serfdom Could Lie Ahead

From FDR Presidential Library & Museum, Manuel G. Silberger, Lithograph 1936, WPA - Federal Art Project  If conservatives accept President Donald Trump’s agenda to dismantle our republic’s...