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SAVE America Act, Part III: Making the SAVE America Act Work

Restoring Public Trust in the Ballot Box: A Three-Part Guide to the SAVE America Act ACCURACY NOTE: This analyzes the version of the SAVE America Act that passed the House as an amendment to S. 1383 on February 11, 2026. Earlier SAVE Act proposals differ in many ways. Requirements

SAVE America Act, Part II: Election Integrity Is More Than a Statistical Argument

Restoring Public Trust in the Ballot Box: A Three-Part Guide to the SAVE America Act ACCURACY NOTE: This analyzes the version of the SAVE America Act that passed the House as an amendment to S. 1383 on February 11, 2026. Earlier SAVE Act proposals differ in many ways. Requirements

SAVE America Act, Part I: What It Actually Does — and What It Does Not

Restoring Public Trust in the Ballot Box: A Three-Part Guide to the SAVE America Act ACCURACY NOTE: This analyzes the version of the SAVE America Act that passed the House as an amendment to S. 1383 on February 11, 2026. Earlier SAVE Act proposals differ in many ways. Requirements

Paying for College Is a Coordination Problem — That Can be Overcome

How College-Age Families Can Align Tax Credits, 529 Plans, Scholarships, and Financial Aid Part IV in the GSKC Year-Round Tax Planning Series. For many families, the arrival of a college acceptance letter brings both pride and financial reality. College has become a major household capital expenditure — but families

What Happened to Pride in America?

Why national pride is falling — and how mature patriotism can rebuild civic confidence America just celebrated one of the most symbolic moments in its history: the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. And yet, as the country marks that milestone, national pride has reached one of its weakest points

Raising a Family and the Tax Code: What Parents with Young Children Need to Know

Young families often manage tax credits, childcare benefits, payroll withholding, and education savings as separate decisions. Coordinating them can improve cash flow today while building greater financial security for tomorrow.

Congress’s Unfinished Business

Part II: The Ruling Settled the Case. It Didn’t Settle the Question. AMERICA'S CHARTER, REVISITED  ·  PART II OF II Part I of this series laid out what the Supreme Court actually decided in Trump v. Barbara, and what the Fourteenth Amendment was actually built to do. The

Soil, Not Blood — Birthright Citizenship

Part I: What the Court Actually Ruled — and What the Fourteenth Amendment Was Actually Built to Do AMERICA'S CHARTER, REVISITED  ·  PART I OF II This series does not argue that presidents can rewrite citizenship law by executive order. It points to the deeper constitutional and civic question — whether

Happy Birthday, America

250 Years of Freedom and Opportunity AMERICA AT 250 SERIES · THE FINALE · A SALUTE TO AMERICA The America at 250 Series shared the journey of the American experience that honors the people, principles, and defining moments that transformed thirteen colonies into the freest, strongest, proudest, and most prosperous nation in

The Next 250 Years

A Call to Renewal America’s next 250 years will not be secured by nostalgia, grievance, technology, politics, or luck. They will be shaped by whether Americans recover the habits that made self-government possible: truth, responsibility, family, work, faith, civic trust, institutional stewardship, innovation with wisdom, and shared national

What Makes America Exceptional?

America is exceptional because it was built around the radical idea that inherited circumstance should not define human destiny. America’s greatness is not that it perfected that promise. It is that, for 250 years, it has never stopped striving toward it.

The Meaning of Sacrifice: What the Greatest Generation Still Teaches Us

Sacrifice, unity, commitment, and nation before self are the lessons passed on. AMERICA AT 250 SERIES · ARTICLE EIGHT We remember the soldiers, and we should. But the deeper story of the Greatest Generation is not only what happened on the beaches of Normandy. It is what happened in the factories,

The State of the Union

Where America Actually Stands at 250 AMERICA AT 250 SERIES   ·   ARTICLE SEVEN The previous six articles looked backward. This one stops and looks around. Where does America actually stand at 250 — not as a campaign talking point, but as an honest accounting? This is the hardest article in the series

The Journey West

Westward expansion was a genuine story of opportunity, mobility, and the building of a continental nation. It was also a genuine story of displacement, broken promises, and devastating cost to the people who already lived there.