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Yellen’s June 1 Deadline May Not be Real

There is a Strategy for Not Defaulting on Federal Loans Unfortunately, the media and both parties have tended to conflate a shutdown with defaulting. That...

Our Cultural Assumptions stop us from achieving National Health Care Coverage

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Stop Playing Politics – Provide Americans Universal Health Care – Part 1

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A Bloated Military Budget enables waste, corruption, and world-wide intervention

Please become a Patreon patron so that Citizenship Politics can reach more people While the Republicans and Democrats do a slow tangle to lift the debt ceiling to avoid...

A Debt Ceiling Holds Our Economy Hostage

If Congress doesn’t raise the ceiling, one of the political parties threatens to bring our economy to a halt. That is not a sensible...

What is to be done about America’s growing disparity in wealth?

Over the past year, new research has shown how a phenomenal accumulation of wealth has become concentrated among just 1 percent of Americans over...

Author of ‘After Cooling’ discusses Freon’s legacy and the societal cost of air conditioning

Originally published in the Seattle Times on 7/27/21 In opening Eric Dean Wilson’s book, “After Cooling: On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of...

Can Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Peel-Off Blue-Collar Workers from the Republicans?

The Democrats have been losing blue-collar voters for the last decade; this legislation could reverse that trend.             The Democrats and the Republicans are struggling over...

Civilized to Death – The Price of Progress

Originally published October 20, 2019, in the Seattle Times In Civilized to Death – The Price of Progress, author Christopher Ryan proposes the most controversial...

It’s Time for A Robot Tax

Written by Nick Licata It’s simple; the robot that replaces every worker or reduces their pay will be taxed. The Robot Maria Fritz Lang's 1927 Metropolis Taxing robots...

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