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Spirit Airlines, known for cheap flights, suddenly closed earlier this month. Budget airlines seem to do fine in Europe. Why can’t they survive in the U.S.?
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The Trump administration has made dramatic changes to the U.S. Forest Service, closing nearly every regional office and axing its research budget. Some say it's overdue reform. But critics say public lands won’t be protected.
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On Point news analyst Jack Beatty on the division between the normative state and the prerogative state and the role that could be playing in the U.S. today.
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