How often have you heard that cheer? Never, right? For good reason. How many mothers have you heard wishing that their children grow up to become tax return preparers? None, right? For good reason. Candidate Donald Trump in 2016 called America’s tax system “complex” and “unfair” –...
Today’s TLR is about democracy. It’s not about politics. It’s also not about the upcoming impeachment trial of former President Trump. Although both politics and impeachment are a part of America’s democratic machinery – the latter falling within the domain of Congress and the Supreme...
The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution says that America’s government cannot limit peoples’ right to speak freely. The government cannot censor speech (other than criminal speech) and it cannot regulate the right to say, or not to say, whatever an American wants to say...
TLR’s most important narratives center on bridging America’s divisions …, and 2020 provided plenty of grist for that mill. Progress in any culture and any political system requires a constant re-examination of goals and realities. In America today, progress depends on a critical evaluation of the...
The Supreme Court’s 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade has divided Americans for almost half a century. Politically, it created a gulf between anti-abortion, socially-conservative Republicans Americans and pro-abortion, socially liberal Democrats Americans, a gulf that has continued to widen. Dialogue between the two does...
