While many question the logic and onset of the 2025 government shutdown, philosopher John Rawls would view it as predictable, far from an anomaly, a direct consequence of the breakdown in political trust and long-term erosion of public reason. It was not accidental. As Rawls posits in his conceptualization of public reason for liberal democracies, […]
Congressional Democrats have renewed the fight to give working Americans a raise. In January, they proposed the Raise the Wage Act, which would gradually increase the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 an hour by 2024. The bill is already supported by 181 Democratic sponsors in House and 31 in the Senate.[1] The proposal […]