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Time to celebrate St. Ronald's chasing of the revenuers from America.
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Happy St. Ronald Reagan Day!
Robert David Sullivan
On this Irish holiday, a look at the most prominent religious icon in the Republican Party.
Fears of a "kingly" president may be more justified now than during the rule of Andrew Jackson. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division [LC-USZ62-1562])
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
The Iran letter and Netanyahu speech can’t distract from Congress’s impending doom
Robert David Sullivan
An elected chief executive and a separately elected Congress are in a constant battle.
This is neither the most mature nor the most effective way of getting out of writing emails. (Image from NBC's "Parks and Recreation")
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Email phobia isn't a becoming trait for male lawmakers
Robert David Sullivan
The holdouts against the digital word are almost all self-styled men of action.
Washington may crumble in less dramatic fashion than depicted in the film "Independence Day."
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
American government may be doomed by efficiency, not by dysfunction
Robert David Sullivan
What if gridlock is the only thing keeping the United States together?
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
This week in polarization: guns and surviving the apocalypse
Robert David Sullivan
The one-gun household is disappearing from American life along with one-car garages single-family homes with single family bathrooms and other bygone markers of the middle class That seems to be the best explanation for polling data showing that the percentage of homes with guns has dropped sign
The definition of poverty set in 1963, when this cookbook was published, doesn't make sense in the 21st century.
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
No win-win solution to poverty, no matter how you measure it
Robert David Sullivan
How we define poverty has political implications.
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