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Trump's Water Policies Put America's Drinking Water at Risk

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Homelessness Just Declined in the U.S.–Trump’s Plans Will Take Us Backwards.

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Trump’s State Capitalism Marks a Radical Break in U.S. Policy

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America’s Birthday Is Not a Trump Rally

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The Fulcrum
By The FulcrumDec 21, 2021
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The Fulcrum staff.
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Every four years, millions of Americans wonder why they choose their presidents through the Electoral College, an arcane institution that permits the loser of the popular vote to become president and narrows campaigns to swing states. Most Americans have long preferred a national popular vote, and Congress has attempted on many occasions to alter or scuttle the Electoral College. Several of these efforts—one as recently as 1970—came very close to winning approval. Yet this controversial system remains as the team from the Network for Responsible Public Policy discusses.


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The U.S. is falling short of what its national wealth makes possible for its people.

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Americans Are Not As Well Off As People in Peer Nations – Us Safety Net’s Shortfalls Show Up in Global Data

As the United States celebrates the 250th anniversary of its Declaration of Independence, the global data we collect and analyze shows that the country is failing to “promote the general Welfare,” as the Constitution’s framers promised a little more than a decade later.

We are scholars of human rights. Alongside the Human Rights Measurement Initiative, a nonprofit that tracks how well more than 200 countries and territories are meeting the human rights commitments their governments have made, we annually update scores measuring whether people can actually get the basics of a decent life, such as healthcare, adequate food and a quality education.

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People protest against the war in Iran on March 2, 2026 in New York, New York. U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the United States and Israel had launched an attack on Iran Saturday morning.

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How Trump’s Iran War Erodes Democracy and What We Can Do About It

Deciding to go to war is as consequential a decision as any government can make. That has always been the case and is even more so at a time when the weapons of war are so lethal and destructive.

Wars are also very costly to the fabric of democracy in any nation. Whether a war of choice or a defensive conflict, the metric of success in war is victory, not popular approval.

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When, in 2026, the United States marks the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, we should take pride in our collective journey.
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The Inherited Stage

A friend recently asked if I was optimistic about the future. Not in any particular context - just one of those casual what kind of person are you kind of questions. I stopped what I was doing. Little did this inquirer know that I was in the midst of a months-long journey into the Founding era of America, and that this particular question was among the first things considered by the people we recognize as our founders. My free time had been enveloped by nonfiction, documentaries, podcasts, and reflective writing. And here, in advance of the country's 250th birthday, was the right question for, as it turned out, the right person. I took a breath and lobbed my answer back -

“Do I really have a choice?”

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