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AOC’s advocacy of a tax rate of 70-80 percent on very high incomes, is obviously crazy, right? Who thinks that makes sense? Only ignorant people like - Peter Diamond, Nobel laureate in economics, arguably the world’s leading expert on public finance

Women who ran for Congress avoided women’s issues in their campaign ads

Military leaders literally don’t know what they’re doing with our money, but they want more. People on the left and right have had enough.

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Nothing unites our political class like the threat of ending our never-ending war

Wind, solar and other companies in the green sector would benefit in a big way from a Green New Deal. A full-blown climate crisis is barreling at us like a wrecking ball off its chain. The question of whether we achieve a Green New Deal....

A New Peace Deal and a Green New Deal should go hand in hand

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The Green New Deal embodies the kind of big thinking that party leaders have shirked over the past few decades, during which liberals in Washington opted for incremental policy tweaks and compromises with Republicans and corporations alike.