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Cory Manento2023/06/211 min read

Talkin' Policy is the Best Policy

Let’s be honest. Indictments and anti-vax Kennedys aside, we’re likely hurtling toward a Biden-Trump rematch in 2024.
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Cory Manento2023/05/031 min read

Things People Love: Being Corrected and Talking About Abortion

Last month, in a victory for… limited government? actual doctors’ medical advice? anti-abortion activists, a federal judge in Texas ruled that the abortion-inducing pill ...
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Brendon Ellis2023/04/051 min read

RE: FWD: Postponing Pierre's Retirement Party

A few weeks ago, French President Emmanuel Macron sidestepped Parliament to unilaterally bump up the retirement age in France from 62 to 64, sparking protests, civil unrest, and ...
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Kyle Block2023/03/221 min read

Build-a-President

With the Republican presidential primaries in full swing and preceding an announcement from President Biden (as of publication), even Santa is thinking of cashing in on the ...
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Sarah Binns2023/03/221 min read

Haberdash-of-Patriotism

Last year, the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University (the full acronym is longer than this article) selected Gradient, along with fellow research ...
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Cory Manento2023/02/011 min read

Unsealing Our Debt Ceiling Fate

Tensions on Capitol Hill are rising higher than the upper interior surface of a room as Congress moves steadily closer to a debt ceiling crisis. The US reached its $31.4 trillion ...
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Cory Manento2023/01/191 min read

Dude, Where’s My Monthly Survival Payment?

We all know that Grandma Phyllis sends us monthly checks because she can no longer remember our birthday, but what if Uncle Sam sent all Americans monthly checks to try and forget ...
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Cory Manento2022/12/071 min read

Why So Blue, Twitter Blue?

Things have been pretty eventful in TwitterLand since Elon Musk took over the company on October 28th: The mass firings, the new paid subscription service (or maybe not?), banning ...
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Cory Manento2022/11/021 min read

Screwed! At the Midterms

On the ballot in next week’s midterm elections includes everything from reproductive rights, inflation, slavery, democracy itself, to sports betting. Most Americans would bet the ...
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