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Two years ago, California was so flush that Gov. Gavin Newsom was moved to make a bold declaration about the states estimated $100 billion budget surplus. Simply without precedent, the Democratic leader said, announcing the good news in May 2022. No other state in American history has ever experienced a surplus as large as this.

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia A Cambodian court on Thursday found the president of the countrys main opposition party guilty of defamation and ordered him to pay $1.5 million in damages to the government, his lawyer and legal observers said.

Nancy MacLeans Democracy in Chains portrays the late economist James Buchanan as a central figure in the modern libertarian movement. An individual can be influential in different ways; he can be an institution-builder, inspire strategy, or directly influence other activists and movement intellectuals with his ideas. MacLean suggests that Buchanan was a supremely important institution-builder

A day before the Senate voted to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Mimi Jones joined six other civil rights activists in leaping into a Whites-only motel pool in St. Augustine, Fla. Moments later, the motels manager emerged with a jug of muriatic acid, a cleaning agent, and poured it into the water.

Paul Solman: Gibney says we boomers benefited from investments in roads, new schools, education, paid for with taxes on previous generations. But when it was the boomers' turn to give, we continued to take, tax cuts, expanded Medicare and Social Security, an imbalance that led to an explosion of debt. Gibney points out that, when