Politics and Society

Romina Boccia joins Nicholas Anthony to discuss how the shutdown centers on demands to extend subsidies for earners making well above median household income—all the way up to $500,000 annually. Federal workers and SNAP recipients have been offered up as political collateral for a deal that would cause an unprecedented $1.5 trillion in additional deficit spending—all while we continue trucking toward a fiscal cliff.

If left unchecked, immigration enforcement’s use of facial recognition technology could potentially trigger a constitutional crisis.

As new technologies emerge, many innovators and civil society are stepping up to provide parents and users with various controls that can help them navigate certain risks, removing the need for increased government intervention.

A recent critique of school vouchers ignores that public schools have a history of segregation, operate without proof of effectiveness, and continue to fail many of the students they claim to serve.