Future of the republican party
Student loan default recoveries
Student loan default recoveries (FY17 Q1). U.S. federal student loan defaults totaling over 81 billion dollars have been assigned to thirty private collection agencies. DATASOURCE: Federal Student Aid. WIDGET: factgraphs.org
Cancel culture
Top 1%
Income of the top 1% (1980-2016). Percentage (%) of pre-tax income earned by the top one percent of the population. DATASOURCE: World Wealth & Income Database. WIDGET: factgraphs.org
Never were ‘adults in the room’
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While the last grown-up was unable to restrain Trump from imprisoning asylum-seeking children, abusing his pardon power for Joe Arpaio, abusing declassification power, undertaking a partisan purge of the FBI, cheering the French far right, or issuing apologias for neo-Nazis, he finally decided to take his stand over Trump making the perfectly defensible decision to withdraw US forces from a hazily defined open-ended mission in Syria that lacked any legal authorization.
Under the bus
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One sailor on the Roosevelt died but many more would have if Crozier had not put his career on the line by speaking up. The same cannot be said of those military and civilian leaders above him who did not step up and continue to throw Crozier under the bus rather than taking responsibility for their own actions.