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Civitas Outlook's Top 10 of 2025

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We bring you our 10 top-performing essays for 2025.
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We bring you our 10 top-performing essays for 2025.
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1.  Emina Melonic - Ken Burns' Egregious Omission‍

2. Thomas Howes - Tucker Carlson’s Sinking Ideological Ship

3. John Yoo - Does Federal Law Extend to Portlandia?

4. Steven Hayward - Trade Protection and Tariffs from Reagan to Trump

5. Richard Epstein - The Case Against Birthright Citizenship

6. John Yoo - Birthright Citizenship Is American Citizenship

7.  John Yoo & Robert Delahunty - Breaking Watergate's Hold on the Presidency

‍8.  Michael Toth - The Education Revolution Is Here and Parents and Children Are Winning

9.  Lee E. Ohanian - Creating Affordable Housing Requires Just One Simple Legislative Change‍

10. William Voegeli - Now It Can Be Told

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