Author: Thomas L. Knapp

Source: Niskanen Center
by Joshua McCabe

“State policymakers have powerful tools at their disposal to support families with the cost of raising children and caring for disabled or elderly relatives. The key is knowing how to maximize their impact through fiscally responsible reforms that expand the scope, generosity, and simplicity of family tax benefits in their states. As we noted in a previous report, there is broad interest among policymakers in rethinking their approaches to supporting families through state tax codes. Here, we focus on the use of refundable child tax credits (CTCs).” (10/21/25)

https://www.niskanencenter.org/the-many-paths-to-a-refundable-child-tax-credit-for-states

Source: JimBovard.com
by James Bovard

“The Trump administration has slashed federal spending for democracy promotion efforts around the globe. That rollback of U.S. meddling is perhaps the most positive foreign-policy reform of the Trump presidency. Since 1946, the U.S. government has intervened in more than a hundred foreign elections to assist its preferred candidate or party. Democracy is so important that the U.S. government refuses to stand idly by when foreign voters go astray.” (10/21/25)

https://jimbovard.com/blog/2025/10/21/will-trump-end-sham-democracy-promotions/

Source: The Bulwark
by Jill Lawrence

“Two views of how the president’s senseless economic and moral acts put the country at risk.” (10/21/25)

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/heiress-soybean-farmer-abigail-disney-john-bartman-trump-economy

Source: National Health Federation
by Matt Warnock

“Monarchy derives from the Greek root word ‘mono,’ meaning one, and ‘archon,’ meaning ruler. This week 249 years ago, the American colonies declared their independence from the British monarchy. They fought a seven-year revolutionary war to win it, and another three-year war in 1812 to keep it. We all continue to fight for our freedoms today – the ‘No Kings’ protests on the one hand, and the anti-COVID-19 protests on the other, are symptoms of that struggle. Today, there are at least three central ideas that control our health and health freedom. Each is a single idea that restrains our liberty of conscience, choice, and action.” (10/21/25)

https://thenhf.com/health-freedom-deposing-three-monarchs/

Source: The Ramparts
by j.b.

“Every civilization ends with a parody of itself. The cathedrals rot into museums, the saints turn into celebrities, and the faith that once united a people gets replaced by a counterfeit morality wearing its old clothes. That’s what’s happened to America. The old Protestant spirit — once obsessed with salvation and purity before God — has shed the cross and kept the guilt. It has become something hollow, bureaucratic, neurotic, and self-adoring. It has become Wokeism.” (10/21/25)

https://theramparts.substack.com/p/woke-the-final-reformation