Ben Samuels
Politics, government, and how to improve what feels like an increasingly broken system.
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Notwithstanding some good news yesterday, if you’re someone who thinks that gerrymandering is bad, it’s been a rough couple of months.
I’ve written extensively about gerrymandering before—not just because my own run for Congress ended in ’...
Younger Americans are falling behind (Part 2)
I wrote last time1 about how, as older people accumulate more wealth and political power, young people are falling behind in this country:
What I left out of that: housing. Housing is, by far, the largest expense for American families; it...
Younger Americans are falling behind (Part 1)
I’ve written before about inefficient government spending, but for all of its issues, the government has played a huge role in decades-long declines in poverty, hunger, and childhood mortality.
Yes, it’s imperfect, but the government has a...
Five ways Trump profits from the presidency
Lately, I’ve been reading about the Teapot Dome scandal in the 1920s. Albert B. Fall, Warren G. Harding’s Interior Secretary, got caught giving sweetheart deals to oil companies leasing land in central Wyoming.
At the time, newspapers woul...
Voters vs. lawmakers
Some good news out of Missouri last week.
First, some context: last year, the legislature referred an amendment to the voters that would make it functionally impossible1 for voter-initiated ballot measures2 to become part of the state cons...
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