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Remittances Leave the Country by the Billions. Should Washington Tax Them Conservatives split on taxing or tracking money that workers send home, so here is each side's best case and the one I find stronger. Grenada in 1983 Was Small, and It Mattered More Than the Critics Admit Operation Urgent Fury was messy and condemned at the UN, and it still rescued students, ended a coup regime and told the world America would answer. The Roosevelt Corollary Turned Monroe's Warning Into a Police Badge Roosevelt's 1904 Corollary stretched Monroe's shield into a license to police the hemisphere, and the record shows where deterrence ends and policing begins. Jeane Kirkpatrick Taught the Right to Tell Allies from Enemies A Democrat wrote the 1979 essay that reshaped Republican foreign policy, then served Reagan at the UN. Her career, her idea, and its best critics. The Cartels Run Like Multinational Firms, So Policy Should Treat Them That Way Mexican cartels are diversified criminal businesses. Conservatives differ over sanctions, terrorist designation and force, and both positions get a hearing. Temporary Protected Status and the Problem of Temporary That Never Ends TPS was meant as short shelter after war or disaster. Renewed for decades, it becomes quiet permanence that Congress should settle by statute. Cuba's ration book and more than sixty years of promises at the bodega Cuba introduced its ration book in 1962 as a stopgap. Its survival across generations is the plainest verdict on the revolution, embargo included. Venezuela was once Latin America's success story, and then came socialism Venezuela sat on the largest oil reserves on earth. Two decades of nationalization, price controls and money printing turned that wealth into hunger and exodus.