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In America, Kids Come Last
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) is the most universally ratified human rights treaty in the history of the United...
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Apr 24, 20225 min read


Will Biden Take Action on the Student Debt Crisis?
After a year in office, President Joe Biden has yet to follow through on his campaign promise to relieve the student debt crisis....
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Apr 14, 20224 min read


The Great Resignation: Why Work-Life is being Rebalanced
It’s a Sunday evening, and what better way to celebrate the end of a long week than heading out to eat a nice dinner at your favorite...
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Apr 12, 20225 min read


Dimming Lights: Mexico’s Energy Reform Amendments
In Fall 2021, Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), proposed important changes to the 2014 Energy Reform law,...
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Mar 23, 20224 min read


American Ideals In Perspective: The Problem with Private Education and Inheritance
The perennial economic debate is capitalism vs. socialism. Public discourse seems to have abandoned both ends of the spectrum: There are...
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Feb 27, 20225 min read


The Strange Link Between Autocracy and Late-Industrial Development
In the 20th century, a select cast of East Asian governments completely redefined the international economic order. It was the era of the...
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Dec 13, 20215 min read


The GOP’s Mid-life Crisis: Economic Divergence
In recent years, figures within the Republican Party have broken from conservative economic orthodoxy to advocate for increasingly...
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Dec 13, 20216 min read


Driven to Disaster: Why Major Cities Must Abolish the Paid Taxicab Medallion System
The recent New York City taxicab driver hunger strike underscores a stark economic reality for cab drivers in major cities around the...
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Dec 10, 20214 min read


How America’s Cashless Economy Has Punished the Homeless for Being Poor
Over the last decade, the number of individuals living in New York City homeless shelters surged as high as 50% at times. The COVID-19...
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Dec 10, 20214 min read


“The Perfect Tax”: Land Value Taxation and the Housing Crisis
In many major American cities, housing affordability has become a pressing issue. In cities like New York and San Francisco, rents have...
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Dec 3, 20214 min read


The Intertwined Nature of Our Pressing Economic Problems
As the global economy has begun to recover from over a year of Covid-19-related crisis, employers are finding it surprisingly difficult...
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Nov 28, 20216 min read


The Case for Refocusing European Strategy to Curb Polish Illiberalism
The Polish working class has emerged as an unfortunate pawn in recent disputes between the European Union (EU) and the Polish government,...
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Nov 22, 20215 min read


This Could Be Labor’s Battle of Saratoga… Or Its Waterloo
Cesar Chavez, a United Farm Workers (UFW) leader, began his hunger strike on February 15, 1968, and went on to go for a total of 25 days...
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Nov 17, 20214 min read


Fixing America’s Care Infrastructure: The Case for Expanding Long-Term Care
In the course of their internal negotiations over their planned reconciliation bill, congressional Democrats have debated several...
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Nov 15, 20214 min read


Tech Entrepreneurs, Venture Capitalists, and the New Age of Corporate Misgovernance
The core mission of venture capital (VC) is to fund incredible ideas, so that those ideas may one day become realities. In many ways...
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Nov 11, 20217 min read


Can We Turn Back The Clock on Climate Change?
In 1989, UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher spoke to the UN General Assembly on a topic that, while seemingly pedantic at the time, was...
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Nov 9, 20214 min read


Protectionism: Bipartisanship, for Better or for Worse
When President Joe Biden took office in 2021, he immediately sought to undo much of his predecessor’s agenda. Indeed, President Biden’s...
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Nov 1, 20215 min read


Using Vaccine Diplomacy to Address Supply Chain Woes
In this year of crises, the plight of the Ever Given was, without doubt, the most absurd. While attempting to cross the Suez Canal during...
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Oct 30, 20215 min read


Closing the Gap: Desensitization to Wealth Inequality and its Costs to Average Americans
There’s a certain unfortunate cynicism to calling economic progressives and Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama “socialists.” Fiscal...
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Oct 29, 20214 min read


Forget About the Price Tag
When it comes to fiscal policy, pundits love to talk about price tags. Whether discussing President Biden’s proposed “$3.5 trillion”...
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Oct 28, 20214 min read
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