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What the 2025 Budget Law's Medicaid Work Requirements Actually Require Who must report 80 hours a month to keep Medicaid under the 2025 budget law, who is exempt, when it starts, and why paperwork rather than work drives most coverage losses. What the Dobbs Opinion Actually Held, and What It Left to the States A plain reading of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization: the majority's reasoning, the three concurrences, the joint dissent, and the open questions it handed to legislatures. What the Great Society Actually Built and Which Parts Still Stand An inventory of what Lyndon Johnson's Great Society created in a few years in the 1960s, from Medicare to Head Start and school aid, and which of those programs are still standing sixty years on. What the July 2025 Tax and Spending Law Did to Medicaid and SNAP A plain guide to the work requirements, six-month renewals, state cost shifts and benefit changes for Medicaid and SNAP in the July 4, 2025 law, and when each one is set to arrive. What the Louisiana Voucher Studies Found About Test Scores Louisiana's 2012 voucher expansion produced some of the most rigorous evidence on vouchers ever gathered, and the early math results were startling. Here is what the studies found. When Big Tech Brought Left and Right Together on Antitrust How a 2020 House investigation of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google found a Colorado Republican agreeing with Democrats on monopoly power, and why that alliance still matters. When DOGE Reached the Treasury's Payment Systems in February 2025 How a small DOGE team got into the Treasury systems that send nearly every federal payment, and what the lawsuits that followed said about privacy and power. When Reagan Fired the Air Traffic Controllers in August 1981 The PATCO strike ended with more than 11,000 controllers fired and their union destroyed. How it happened, and how it taught private employers that replacing strikers was acceptable. When Texas Democrats Left for Illinois in August 2025 to Stop a New Map In August 2025 more than fifty Texas House Democrats left the state to block a mid-decade congressional map. Why they left, why they came back, and the redistricting war that followed. When the Top Tax Rate Was 91 Percent, and Who Actually Paid It The 1950s top rate of 91 percent is a favorite progressive talking point. Here is how few people paid it, what the rich really owed, and what that era can and cannot teach us now. Who Gained the Most From the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act The 2017 tax law cut the corporate rate to 21 percent for good and individual rates for eight years. Here is how its gains were divided, and the strongest case its supporters make. Who Pays to Clean Up Superfund Sites, and Why the Polluter Tax Lapsed Superfund's taxes on oil and chemical companies expired in 1995, shifting toxic cleanup costs to taxpayers for a generation. How Congress brought them back.