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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...

Passion for overturning the Abortion Ban outweighs Anger over Inflation        

SCOTUS has lit a fire under the Democrats and Independents to get out and vote           Passion, not facts, drives voters to the polls. Republicans and...

Can the Global Corporate Tax Clip Corporate Power?

What is the Proposed Global Corporate Tax?In early October, The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), consisting of 136 countries representing more than 90%...

Making a case for Legalizing Psychedelics

Aside from issues that rightly dominate print headlines and social media, there is an inconspicuous national movement arising: legalizing psychedelics.  This movement may cause many...

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...

Teach Civics In Schools or Face More Insurrections

Special Note for classroom use - any portions of this essay may be reprinted freely.  Ignorance Does Not Lead to Freedom The slogans of the January 6...

How Can Hate Speech and Conspiracy Theories be Banned on Social Media?

            The legal answer to that question depends on how the courts treat the status of social media providers. The political answer depends on who...

Does Esper’s Firing Imply Using the Insurrection Act?

Written by Nick Licata | Originally published 11/15/2020   Trump’s firing of Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, two months before leaving the White House, may mean...

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