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Associated Press - "AmeriCorps cuts prompt two dozen states to sue Trump administration" by Hannah Fingerhut:

Associated Press - "Most of AmeriCorps staff members have been placed on leave after DOGE cuts" by Hannah Fingerhut and Tran Nguyen:

GAO - "MILITARY RECRUITING: Actions Needed to Address Digital Marketing Challenges:

Yahoo! - "Young Adults Are Reviving Small Towns—and They’re Moving at the Highest Rate in a Decade" by Snejana Farberov:

NPR - "100 days of DOGE: What Elon Musk has achieved and what comes next" by Bobby Allyn and Lauren Frayer:

USA Today - "Is Elon Musk quitting DOGE? What he said after disastrous Tesla earnings call" by Jordan Green:

CNN - "‘Just never been anything like DOGE’: Inside Elon Musk’s turbulent takeover of government in Trump’s first 100 days" by Jeremy Herb, Eric Bradner and Tami Luhby:

The Hill - "What happens to DOGE once Elon Musk leaves?" by Julia Shapero:

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Congressional Research Service - "Value-Added Tax (VAT) as a Revenue Option: A Primer" by James M. Bickley:

McKinsey & Company - "We need to talk . . . about gen AI" by Gerard Richter, Marie El Hoyek, and Valerio Dilda:

CNBC - "How much would a wealth tax really raise? Dueling economists reflect new split in Democratic Party" by Robert Frank:

Axios - "Why Trump is taking aim at Europe's sales tax" by Felix Salmon:

AP - "US economic growth to slow in the next 30 years, fueled by debt and declining birth rates, CBO says" by Fatima Hussein and Josh Boak:

The Hill - "5 reasons why a wealth tax is bad policy" by Richard J. Shinder:

Tax Policy Center - "Taxing Wealth in the United States: Issues and Challenges" by Janet Holtzlatt and Gabriella Garriga:

Tax Foundation - "From the Tax Foundation Archives: The Pros and Cons of a Value Added Tax (VAT)" by Scott Hodge:

Business Insider - "What productivity boom? AI will provide just a 1% GDP boost over the next decade, MIT economist says" by Filip De Mott:

Bloomberg Tax - "The United States Needs a Value-Added Tax" by Alan Viard:

World Resources Institute - "US Clean Power Development Sees Record Progress, As Well As Stronger Headwinds" by Lori Bird, Andrew Light and Ian Goldsmith:

Avalara - "‘It’s inevitable,’ experts say: U.S. states will eventually adopt European-style sales tax compliance requirements" by Bryan Corliss:

Scientific America - "The AI Boom Could Use a Shocking Amount of Electricity" by Lauren Leffer:

CNBC - "The probability of a recession is approaching 50%, Deutsche markets survey finds" by Jeff Cox:

McKinsey Global Institute - "Rekindling US productivity for a new era" by Charles Atkins, Olivia White, Asutosh Padhi, Kweilin Ellingrud, Anu Madgavkar, and Michael Neary:

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - "What Lessons Can Be Drawn from Japan’s High Debt-to-GDP Ratio?" by YiLi Chien and Ashley H. Stewart:

Peter G Petersen Foundation - "National Debt on Track to Reach Record High in Just Four Years":

Penn Wharton - "When Does Federal Debt Reach Unsustainable Levels?" by Jagadeesh Gokhale and Kent Smetters:

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Freddie DeBoer-"I Would Like to Gently Suggest that Perhaps Everything Everywhere All at Once is Just a Touch Overrated":

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IEA.Gov - "Share of SUVs in total car sales in key markets, 2010-2019":

Ford - "Ford Broadens Electrification Strategy to Reach More Customers, Improve Profitability, Continue to Reduce CO2":

Ars Technica - "Chinese EV makers won’t get subsidies from Mexico after US pressure" by Jonathan M. Gitlin:

McKinsey & Company - "Paying up for autonomous driving"

The Verge - "Crash of the Titan: a short history of Apple’s doomed car project" by Wes Davis:

DW.com - Apple pulls the plug on its self-driving e-car project by Dirk Kaufmann:

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Time Magazine - "The 39 Most Anticipated Books of 2025" by Shannon Carlin: https://time.com/7202423/most-anticipated-books-2025/

Today - "50 books we can't wait to read in 2025" by Lupita Aquino, Arianna Davis, Bryanna Cappadona, Georgina DiNardo, Anna Kaplan, Maddie Ellis, Kelly Vaughan, Elena Nicolaou and Ayanna Miller: https://www.today.com/popculture/books/best-new-books-2025-rcna184522

Patrick Ryan Website: https://patrickryanbooks.com/books/buckeye/

Goodreads - "Three Days in June": https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/213243949-three-days-in-june?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=YbU3RWncIh&rank=4

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NBC - "Exit Polls"

Texas Tribune "Trump’s near sweep of Texas border counties shows a shift to the right for Latino voters" by Jasper Scherer, Zach Despart and Berenice Garcia, The Texas Tribune, and Perla Trevizo and Dan Keemahill, The Texas Tribune and ProPublica -

NPR - "They split the ticket. Meet the abortion rights voters who also went for Trump" by Sarah Varney -

CBS - "National Exit Poll for Presidential Results (2020)" -

Pew Research - "Newspapers Fact Sheet" -

Silver Bulletin - "Kamala Harris was a replacement-level candidate" by Nate Silver -

Reuters - "Kamala Harris stood up to big banks, with mixed results for consumers in crisis" by Sharon Bernstein -

PolitiFact - "Kamala Harris Says She ‘Took On The Big Banks’ As California Atty. General. Did She Go Far Enough?" by Chris Nichols -

Roper Center - "How Groups Voted in 2020" -

Forbes - "Trump Vs. Harris Fundraising: Harris Outraises Trump By Nearly 5-to-1 Among Last Minute Big Donors" by Alison Durkee -

Forbes - "Real Estate Experts Cite Pros And Cons Of $25,000 Harris First Time Homebuyer Plan" by Jamie Gold -

HeathStory - "2024 Harris 'White Dudes for Harris' Ad"

The Lincoln Project - "Doc Rivers Tells It Like It Is"

The Cut - "What to Know About Kamala Harris’s Policy Proposals" by By Andrea González-Ramírez -

USA Today - "How Clinton lost 'blue wall' states of Mich., Pa., Wis." by Craig Gilbert, Todd Spangler and Bill Laitner Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Detroit Free Press -

CNN - "7 charts and maps show where Harris underperformed and lost the election" by Amy O’Kruk, Renée Rigdon and Zachary B. Wolf, CNN -

Vox - "One striking pattern hidden in the election results" by Andrew Prokop -

LA Times - "Young men swung to the right for Trump after a campaign dominated by masculine appeals" by Matt Brown -

CBS News - "How Trump won the 2024 election — CBS News exit poll results" by Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus, Eran Ben-Porath -

PBS - "Making The Case For Trump’s Tariffs | Amanpour and Company" -

TED Talk - "How the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future | Scott Galloway | TED"

Biennial Post-Election Analysis with Bill Galston and Bill Kristol, joined by Ross Douthat by the Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard -

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BBC "Bob Dylan Sells Rights to all his songs to Universal Music Group"

The Hustle "The economics of Broadway shows" by Mark Dent -

Billboard "Top 10 Highest-Grossing Rock Tours of 2023" by Eric Frankenberg -

ComingSoon.net "Bob Dylan Net Worth 2024: How Much Money Does He Make?" by Vritti Johar -

Variety "Bob Dylan Sells Recorded-Music Catalog to Sony Music" by Jem Aswad -

Variety "AM and FM Radio Do Not Pay Royalties to Artists — That’s Un-American: Guest Post by Senators Alex Padilla and Marsha Blackburn" by Variety Staff -

Bob Dylan - Spotify Top Songs

Ditto "What Are Mechanical Royalties? Explained for Musicians"

Grammys "The Expanding Universe of Music Sync: How It Works, Understanding The Opportunities" by Bill Kopp -

The Economics of Everyday Things: Episode 3 - My Sharona -

Billboard "Music Synch Revenue Is Growing Faster Than Ever" by Glenn Peoples -

BBC "Gig ticket prices have doubled since 1990s" by James Graham -

Vox "The real reason it costs so much to go to a concert" by Whizy Kim -

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Vox - "Everywhere UBI has been tried, in one map" by Sigal Samuel:

Evonomics - "Capitalism’s Core Problem: The Case for Universal Property" by Peter Barnes:

TaxFoundation.org - "Does Andrew Yang’s “Freedom Dividend” Proposal Add Up?" by Kyle Pomerleau:

FactCheck.org - "How Much Will the ‘Green New Deal’ Cost?" by Jessica McDonald:

Forbes - "The Surprising Cost Of Biden’s Free College Tuition Plan" by Rob Berger:

US Department of Education - "First-Generation Students - College Access, Persistence, and Postbachelor's Outcomes" by Emily Forrest Cataldi, Christopher T: Bennett, & Xianglei Chen:

MSBNC - "What billionaires and business titans say about cash handouts in 2017 (Hint: lots!)" by Catherine Clifford:

Magenta Health Japan - "Robots & their Contribution to Aged Care":

Nexford University - "How Will Artificial Intelligence Affect Jobs 2024-2030" by Mark Talmage-Rostron:

University of New Hampshire - "More U.S. Women of Childbearing Age, but Fewer Have Given Birth" by Kennth Johnson:

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Project 2025 Explained: Democrats Assail Controversial Right-Wing Policy Map For Trump At DNC

What could Project 2025 mean for the rest of the world?

Trump’s Foreign-Policy Influencers

Trump could — and wants to — shake up U.S. foreign policy even more in a second term

Imagining Trump 2.0: Six scary policy scenarios for a second term

National Health Expenditure Projections 2023-2032

Harris stands by Israel's right to defend itself while saying Gaza situation is 'heartbreaking'

What a Kamala Harris foreign policy could look like

Will a Kamala Harris Administration Continue Biden’s Greater Clarity on Taiwan?

A graphical look at scenarios for the US defense budget through 2027

Would a Trump presidency change China's calculations on Taiwan?

Why Ukraine’s generals may have rolled the dice on an incursion into Russia

Taiwan Announced a Record Defense Budget: But Is It Enough to Deter China?

There is 'no situation' where Taiwan can defend itself against China the way Ukraine has fought against Russia, says APAC security expert

The U.S. could slash climate pollution, but it might not be enough, a new report says

Harris has yet to outline her plan for climate change. Here's what the Democratic Party platform says

Why Is Taiwan Important to the United States?

Taiwan under pressure to bolster its defense as Trump-Harris presidential race stokes policy concerns