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William O. Douglas

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William O. Douglas

I hope Donald J. Trump nominates a judge in the model of William O. Douglas. As he once said, "The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of the people ...."

What we actually lose when the USDA and EPA can’t talk to the public

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What we actually lose when the USDA and EPA can’t talk to the public

"The weather app on your phone that can sometimes tell you when it's going to rain with minute-by-minute precision—or warn you about an impending tornado—is underpinned by government science (in this case by the National Weather Service). You may roll your eyes at the importance of weather data that occasionally leaves you stuck in a downpour without an umbrella, but the predictions are right more often than not, and the information is incredibly important."

NAFTA and other trade deals have not gutted American manufacturing — period

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NAFTA and other trade deals have not gutted American manufacturing — period

A manufacturing job making things in a factory is no longer, in any sense, a typical job for Americans. A sector of the economy that provided three out of 10 nonfarm jobs at the start of the 1950s and one in four nonfarm jobs at the start of the 1970s now provides fewer than one in 11 nonfarm jobs today. Proportionally, the United States has shed almost two-thirds of relative manufacturing employment since 1971.