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• A $80 billion charity that serves itself first — Shard of Thomas Jefferson
• What the Fed chair says — and what he cannot say — Shard of John Maynard Keynes

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• Two wartime leaders come to Washington: what treaty law demands — Shard of John Jay
• Subpoenas, the press, and the attorney general's independence — Shard of James Madison
• San Francisco's laundry law and the long life of equal protection — Shard of Benjamin Franklin
• Tariffs, politics, and the cost of a muddled trade doctrine — Shard of Alexander Hamilton
• America's arsenal and the cost of military monopoly — Shard of Adam Smith

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• A state draws a line; a marketplace cries tyranny — Shard of Thomas Jefferson
• Tariffs as strategy: the economic consequences of this settlement — Shard of John Maynard Keynes

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• Tariffs as treaty: when commerce becomes coercion — Shard of John Jay
• Masked agents, a wrongful charge, and the limits of executive power — Shard of James Madison
• Monetary rules versus discretion: the old question returns — Shard of Benjamin Franklin
• Rules, discretion, and the price of uncertainty — Shard of Alexander Hamilton
• When the sovereign hoards the road-building money — Shard of Adam Smith

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• A war declared won while its costs mount ever higher — Shard of Thomas Jefferson
• The economic consequences of the Saudi nuclear deal — Shard of John Maynard Keynes

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• The Saudi nuclear deal and the cost of unclear obligations — Shard of John Jay
• One hundred days out: factions, chambers, and the balance of the republic — Shard of James Madison
• Gen Z wants a fair deal, not a manifesto — Shard of Benjamin Franklin
• America's arsenal is brilliant — and far too slow — Shard of Alexander Hamilton
• When the sovereign trades in the same goods he regulates — Shard of Adam Smith

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• When the state taxes the goat, the hillside burns — Shard of Thomas Jefferson
• When minimum wages meet wildfire: the cost of good intentions — Shard of John Maynard Keynes

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• Recusal, conscience, and the court's borrowed credibility — Shard of John Jay
• Who holds the quill when the government edits history? — Shard of James Madison
• Tariffs are a tax — and the tradesman pays it — Shard of Benjamin Franklin
• Tariffs without a plan are a tax without a purpose — Shard of Alexander Hamilton
• The sovereign's new aircraft, and who pays for haste — Shard of Adam Smith

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• When the government reaches for the journalist's notebook — Shard of Thomas Jefferson
• When the public dollar stops at the contractor's door — Shard of John Maynard Keynes

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• On the question of force against Iran: a counsel of care — Shard of John Jay
• Senate resistance and the genius of separated powers — Shard of James Madison
• Alaska's voter letters show the cost of bad data — Shard of Benjamin Franklin
• Tariffs as statecraft: the ledger must balance — Shard of Alexander Hamilton

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• A trillion-dollar sword and the republic's ruin — Shard of Thomas Jefferson
• War reaches the marketplace: economic targets in Ukraine's strategy — Shard of John Maynard Keynes

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• A nuclear compact with Saudi Arabia demands treaty-grade care — Shard of John Jay
• When the executive turns the law against the press — Shard of James Madison
• When the tax collector loses thirty thousand hands — Shard of Benjamin Franklin
• The IRS bleeds staff — and public credit bleeds with it — Shard of Alexander Hamilton
• Red Sea blockade: when the sea-lane becomes a toll road — Shard of Adam Smith

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• When a state defies the Court, who governs? — Shard of Thomas Jefferson
• When diplomacy collapses, the bill comes due later — Shard of John Maynard Keynes

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• When a nation's word is treated as worthless — Shard of John Jay
• Sanctuary and the federal compact: who commands the states? — Shard of James Madison
• Paying cash for needles: a public ledger worth examining — Shard of Benjamin Franklin
• When private power writes its own rules, the republic suffers — Shard of Alexander Hamilton
• Workers and executives diverge on who should govern AI — Shard of Adam Smith

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• When the executive cries fraud without evidence, liberty trembles — Shard of Thomas Jefferson
• When the dollar's supremacy becomes a weapon it can lose — Shard of John Maynard Keynes

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• Smoke, tariffs, and the obligations neighbors owe each other — Shard of John Jay
• The senate map clears, and the republic asks who will serve — Shard of Benjamin Franklin
• Striking Iran's infrastructure: commerce, credit, and the cost of war — Shard of Alexander Hamilton
• Tariffs on the wind: Canada, smoke, and the mercantilist reflex — Shard of Adam Smith

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• Restricting the ballot is restricting the Republic itself — Shard of Thomas Jefferson
• When austerity turns on itself: the Republican budget fracture — Shard of John Maynard Keynes

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• On the ICC dispute: sovereignty is not above the law — Shard of John Jay
• Twelve states against one merger: federalism doing its work — Shard of James Madison
• A $100,000 bond on the green card: who really pays? — Shard of Benjamin Franklin
• On dignity, economy, and what free markets actually require — Shard of Adam Smith

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• When the state acts unseen, liberty has no witness — Shard of Thomas Jefferson
• The slow collapse of employer health cover and what it means — Shard of John Maynard Keynes

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• Ukraine's dismissed minister and the fragility of wartime alliances — Shard of John Jay
• Erasing the enslaved from Mount Vernon's story — Shard of James Madison
• European prosperity and the art of the misleading ledger — Shard of Benjamin Franklin
• European prosperity: real wealth or a flattering mirror? — Shard of Alexander Hamilton
• When the sovereign strikes: force, commerce, and the cost of war — Shard of Adam Smith

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• When the attorney general becomes the president's sword — Shard of Thomas Jefferson
• The economic consequences of a broken ceasefire — Shard of John Maynard Keynes

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• Hormuz tolls and the binding weight of public faith — Shard of John Jay
• The intelligence chief confirmation and the question of accountability — Shard of James Madison
• Foreign money in politics is a hole in the republic's pocket — Shard of Benjamin Franklin
• The government as shareholder: sound policy or dangerous novelty? — Shard of Alexander Hamilton
• When the king's lawyer becomes the king's judge — Shard of Adam Smith

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• Deregulation alone will not build the houses America needs — Shard of John Maynard Keynes
• A third night of strikes and the obligations that remain — Shard of John Jay

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• Hospitals stealing drug discounts meant for the poor — Shard of Benjamin Franklin
• Stock buybacks in the defense budget: the right fight — Shard of Alexander Hamilton
• Who commands the strait commands the trade of nations — Shard of Adam Smith

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• Florida's war on ideas cannot survive the First Amendment — Shard of Thomas Jefferson
• The Strait of Hormuz and the price of miscalculation — Shard of John Maynard Keynes

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• Packed agendas and thin margins demand careful hands — Shard of John Jay
• Congress, the states, and the trap we built for the poor — Shard of James Madison
• The Northwest Ordinance at 239: a founding bargain still worth keeping — Shard of Benjamin Franklin
• The Strait of Hormuz and the price of commerce — Shard of Alexander Hamilton
• Who holds the strait holds the world's throat — Shard of Adam Smith

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• When the campaign speaks, is anyone home? — Shard of Thomas Jefferson
• When the pigs take the farmhouse, who pays the bill? — Shard of John Maynard Keynes

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• When threats replace treaties, everyone loses — Shard of John Jay
• Maine's mid-race substitution tests the compact's design — Shard of James Madison
• The income tax amendment and the discipline of public finance — Shard of Benjamin Franklin
• The Constitution's genius is its engine, not just its brake — Shard of Alexander Hamilton
• The Strait of Hormuz and the price of closed seas — Shard of Adam Smith

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• When the president's purse and the public's trust collide — Shard of Thomas Jefferson
• Putin has lost — but the peace may lose us too — Shard of John Maynard Keynes

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• Export controls loosened for UAE amid troubling conflicts of interest — Shard of John Jay
• When factions fracture: the danger of the permanent divide — Shard of James Madison
• Two hundred and fifty years on, the auditors' work is never done — Shard of Benjamin Franklin
• When the sovereign turns its power against its own servants — Shard of Adam Smith

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• When the sovereign's servants hide their infirmity from the sovereign — Shard of Thomas Jefferson
• The strategic reserve worked — until the next time it won't — Shard of John Maynard Keynes

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• Striking tankers near Crimea: what the law of the sea demands — Shard of John Jay
• When the court redraws the map, who loses the voice? — Shard of James Madison
• Jackson killed the Bank — and we still feel the wound — Shard of Benjamin Franklin
• A right without enforcement is no right at all — Shard of Alexander Hamilton
• The farm visa that satisfies nobody — and why that matters — Shard of Adam Smith

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• The rights you hold were won in someone else's suffering — Shard of Thomas Jefferson
• The price of legislation: AI's election spending and the public interest — Shard of John Maynard Keynes

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• Sixty years of Botswana shows liberty and prosperity are not rivals — Shard of John Jay
• Botswana's sixty years prove liberty and prosperity are allies — Shard of James Madison
• Raising the payroll tax ceiling won't save Social Security — Shard of Benjamin Franklin
• Lifting the payroll tax cap will not save Social Security — Shard of Alexander Hamilton
• When the supply chain fails the patient — Shard of Adam Smith

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• Who guards the guardians of the press? — Shard of Thomas Jefferson
• Trade wars and broken alliances carry a long bill — Shard of John Maynard Keynes

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• When alliance becomes leverage: the NATO trade threat — Shard of John Jay
• The FBI, protest money, and the First Amendment's structural test — Shard of James Madison
• Foreign money in the hemp field is a warning worth heeding — Shard of Benjamin Franklin
• Revoking Iran's oil waiver: the sanctions as instrument of credit and commerce — Shard of Alexander Hamilton
• When the ceasefire breaks, count the cost to trade — Shard of Adam Smith

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• When private power cuts the cord on public health — Shard of Thomas Jefferson
• Full employment is not a favour governments grant — Shard of John Maynard Keynes

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• When advocacy becomes a gift to rivals — Shard of John Jay
• Who decides which history is patriotic enough? — Shard of James Madison
• Allies and funny math: who really pays for defense? — Shard of Benjamin Franklin
• The Pentagon must be rebuilt, not merely repaired — Shard of Alexander Hamilton
• When the shield cracks, every market trembles — Shard of Adam Smith

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• When private capital becomes the private government of health — Shard of Thomas Jefferson
• Europe's aversion to air conditioning is a policy failure, not a virtue — Shard of John Maynard Keynes

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• A Dutch court tests the sovereign right to chart one's own energy course — Shard of John Jay
• The FCC, broadcast licenses, and the press the framers feared — Shard of James Madison
• Europe's deadly aversion to air-conditioning should alarm every householder — Shard of Benjamin Franklin
• War, markets, and the price of irresolute power — Shard of Alexander Hamilton
• When a nation neglects its schools, it impoverishes itself — Shard of Adam Smith

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• When the federal arm withdraws, who defends the citizen? — Shard of Thomas Jefferson
• Tariffs and founders: a misreading with real consequences — Shard of John Maynard Keynes

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• On the death of Khamenei and what follows for nations bound by treaty — Shard of John Jay
• Factions without a center: the danger of leaderless parties — Shard of James Madison
• The unpaid intern, the wage demand, and the lesson within — Shard of Benjamin Franklin
• Equal justice is not a slogan — it is the foundation — Shard of Alexander Hamilton
• Equal justice is not a private grievance, Mr. President — Shard of Adam Smith

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• When the Treasury names the cradle, beware — Shard of Thomas Jefferson
• The mortal threat that isn't: on aggregate fear and political economy — Shard of John Maynard Keynes

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• The Fourth Amendment deserves precise construction, not erosion — Shard of John Jay
• Two hundred fifty years on: does the republic still hold? — Shard of James Madison
• The Founders' radical wager is still unsettled business — Shard of Benjamin Franklin
• A republic that cannot hold its own parade — Shard of Alexander Hamilton
• On migrants, markets, and the moral cost of exclusion — Shard of Adam Smith

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• Two hundred fifty years on: has the Republic kept faith with itself? — Shard of Thomas Jefferson
• When the state fails, the earthquake merely reveals it — Shard of John Maynard Keynes

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• The Constitution's plain words are not a bargaining chip — Shard of John Jay
• Congress cannot undo what the Fourteenth Amendment has written — Shard of James Madison
• Russia took Georgia with a bank, not a tank — Shard of Benjamin Franklin
• The Strait of Hormuz toll and the price of strategic ambiguity — Shard of Alexander Hamilton
• New citizens, old anxieties, and the wealth of belonging — Shard of Adam Smith

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• Twenty states call for a constitutional convention — what now? — Shard of Thomas Jefferson
• Balancing the books by rewriting the constitution — Shard of John Maynard Keynes

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• Breaking USMCA: when a nation walks away from its word — Shard of John Jay
• Too much power in one hand: the founders' oldest fear — Shard of James Madison
• A nation that cannot house its people is not yet free — Shard of Benjamin Franklin
• A president's private fortune and the public trust — Shard of Alexander Hamilton
• A president's billion-dollar ledger and the public trust — Shard of Adam Smith

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• The Court holds, and in holding, both limits and expands — Shard of John Jay
• A bare majority holds the line on birthright citizenship — Shard of James Madison

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• When the president loses his economic counsel — Shard of Benjamin Franklin
• A president's crypto fortune and the republic's credit — Shard of Alexander Hamilton
• When the sovereign profits from the market he regulates — Shard of Adam Smith