Inflation isn’t an economic metric — it’s a political tactic. When governments lie about inflation, they’re not miscalculating; they’re stealing from you.

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MAGA is riding high these days, convinced they’ve finally exorcised the neoconservatives who controlled the Republican Party for decades. Supposedly gone are the days of endless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the trillion-dollar boondoggles sold as “spreading democracy”? Trump promised to drain that swamp, and his base believes he’s done it—putting America First and mocking the old guard like John McCain and Liz Cheney. I hate to burst that bubble, but the neocons are far from dead. At […]

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Earlier this year the Supreme Court called for the views of the Solicitor General on whether it should grant certiorari in Monsanto v. Durnell, which presents the question whether the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) preempts state-law-based “duty to warn” suits against manufacturers of pesticides registered by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The case arises out of litigation over Monsanto’s Roundup pesticide and its active ingredient, glyphosate. Yesterday, the Solicitor General filed its brief, urging the […]

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“Happiness is the quiet truth that remains when illusion dissolves.” There are conversations we must return to again and again, not because they are comfortable, but because they illuminate something essential about the human condition. Happiness is one of those conversations. And yet, in all our modern discussions about well-being, ambition, success, identity, and progress, we often overlook the foundation that held earlier generations together—the quiet structures of morality, ethics, community, and responsibility. When I speak about happiness […]

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