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Commonplace

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A magazine about what matters in America, from @AmerCompass. commonplace.org

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Jun 15
"But what really defines the Brahmin Left parties—and marks their decisive break with social democracy—is a shift of priorities toward sociocultural issues of primary concern to their educated constituencies. These issues generally harken back to the movements of the 1960s around
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"In their present form, all children who are U.S. citizens are eligible for Trump Accounts, regardless of the citizenship or even legal status of their parents. Under existing judicial interpretations of the Fourteenth Amendment, the children of illegal immigrants who are born on
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Against Trump Accounts: A Debate
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"The 1990s are calling and want their placebo populism back! Instead of increasing the power of the working-class majority to demand higher wages from employers, higher benefits from government policymakers, and lower prices from price-gouging monopolies and oligopolies, what can
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Jun 18
New from CSD Senior Policy Advisor Ray Boshara on @commonplc: a compelling case for the potential of Trump Accounts as a way to give every child a real stake in the economy. CSD sees promise here—and room for improvement. commonplace.org/p/the-case-for… #EconomicMobility #PublicPolicy
The Case for Trump Accounts: A Debate
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Jun 18
"Enabling newborns to invest is naturally the best way to counter that—exactly the intention behind Trump Accounts, a new type of traditional IRA established at birth with a $1,000 federal deposit for over 14 million newborns between 2025 and 2028 (and open to all children under
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The Case for Trump Accounts: A Debate
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Jun 17
"We need new routes to wealth creation, especially for those lacking wealth from which to start. For decades, lower- and middle-class families have fairly reliably built wealth through homeownership and post-secondary education—but these assets are not necessarily wealth-building
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The Case for Trump Accounts: A Debate
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Jun 14
Ruy Teixeira: The Long, Slow Death of Social Democracy
Ruy Teixeira: The Long, Slow Death of Social Democracy
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Jun 16
'The invaluable Deciding to Win report analyzed word frequency in Democratic Party platforms since 2012 and found a 32% decline in the appearance of the word “growth” compared to a 150% increase in the word “climate,” a 1,044% increase in “LGBT/LGBTQI+,” a 766% increase in
The Long, Slow Death of Social Democracy
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Ruy Teixeira: The Long, Slow Death of Social Democracy
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Oren Cass
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Jun 11
"When there’s no healthy identity to commit to, people will choose a perverse one." "The line between what is perceived as commonplace human behavior and outright addiction has been blurred tremendously." College students share their thoughts @commonplc
‘The Vibes Are Not Good’
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Jun 11
"Let me be blunt. Left to itself, artificial intelligence will not choose moral liberty. It will choose the passions. It will choose appetite. It will gather power into the fewest hands the world has ever seen and call the result progress. That is the rule of the strong over the
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Reclaiming Citizenship from the Cloud
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Oren Cass
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Jun 10
From @AmerCompass gala, @HawleyMO @commonplc on Reclaiming Citizenship from the Cloud: "Behind every one of these fronts—labor, data centers, children—there is a deeper question. Who decides? Who will set the terms of the artificial intelligence era?" commonplace.org/p/sen-josh-haw…
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Jun 9
"For hardworking Americans, the game is rigged. You can vote to secure union representation, you can reach the bargaining table, and you can press your boss for higher wages, guaranteed benefits, and a secure retirement. But in today’s America, employers are afforded every
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