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The once and future politics of the national debt

Renewing the discussion on fiscal priorities is key to rebalancing our politics

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Aug 09, 2021
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(November 6, 2019 in Washington, DC. Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for PGPF)

I was at a dinner event a few weeks ago with an ideologically diverse group of people and we were talking about the usual stuff — Covid, Trump, political correctness on campus, the rise of China — when suddenly a center-right woman mentioned kind of casually that we’re g…

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