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Everyone in Washington loves tax credits and deductions. Politicians tout them as a painless way to help families pay for green energy, buy homes or lower the cost of health care. They’re also politically irresistible: No one wants to be accused of “raising taxes” by trimming perks that ...
Poor Elbridge Gerry. He wasn’t even a fan of this. Toeing his party’s line, he approved a newly drawn Boston district that was lampooned as a mythological menacing-winged dragon, or salamander. While a salamander-shaped district helped his party hold onto the legislature, this Bill of ...
Some offenses are so heinous they can never be wiped from the record— criminal or moral. There’s no normalizing first- or second-degree murder. Not by having done the time with good behavior, not by getting a college degree, not by apologizing. Other crimes don’t, in themselves, warrant ...
The West Point Association of Graduates announced on June 11 that movie actor Tom Hanks would receive this year’s Sylvanus Thayer Award at a ceremony and parade this month hosted by the U.S. Military Academy. The award goes “to an outstanding citizen of the United States whose service and ...
In her response to the murder of Iryna Zarutska on a light-rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina, the city’s mayor demonstrated the mindset that allowed the heinous act to happen in the first place. Mayor Vi Lyles called the murder of the young Ukraine refugee woman, “a tragic ...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. does not deserve his initials, as he showed in a Senate hearing that revealed a Shakespearean streak of villainy in the health and human services secretary. Senator after senator asked straight questions about his broken promises on vaccine policy. Two are Republican ...
