Nat Kendall-Taylor

1 month ago | contrarian.substack.com | Nat Kendall-Taylor |Jamie Riley

By Nat Kendall-TaylorRiding in with promises of turning the tables on those in government, Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) operatives have projected an underdog image as they chaotically fire hundreds of thousands of public servants and end programs that feed the poorest people on Earth. As they have done all of this, they’ve ousted the watchdogs who could stop them. They justify their actions by claiming they are taking on corruption in service of working people.

Oct 21, 2024 | usnews.com | Maria Flynn |Nat Kendall-Taylor |David Alexander |Jarbas Barbosa

Earlier this year, I lost my parents. In their final months, instead of being able to focus on savoring our time together, our family was overwhelmed by the burdens of caregiving and the shortcomings of our health care system for the elderly. After suffering a fall, my mother, who had dementia, needed 24-hour care in a skilled nursing facility. But the facility lacked the necessary workers to provide the comprehensive care that her doctors recommended.

Oct 18, 2024 | usnews.com | Albert Hunt |Nat Kendall-Taylor |David Alexander |Jon Ralston

In this toss-up presidential election, every group of voters counts, and few more so than the substantial number of Hispanic voters in key swing states. Latinos have grown more than almost any racial or ethnic group of American voters since the last presidential election, now comprising nearly 15% of the national electorate, according to the Pew Research Center. They also have an outsized influence in critical battleground states.

Oct 18, 2024 | usnews.com | Nat Kendall-Taylor |David Alexander |Josephine Shapiro |Joshua Buxbaum

From kissing babies on the campaign trail to posing for photo ops at schools, politicians love to surround themselves with kids. Too often, it’s just for show. The reality is a huge gap between how much American policymakers say they care about kids (a lot) and how much they do to support kids and families (not nearly enough).

May 17, 2024 | newsweek.com | Moira O’Neil |Nat Kendall-Taylor

Moms for Liberty may have dropped off the front page and out of the headlines, but its core argument—that the government is out to usurp parents' rights and undermine their ability to raise their children—is alive and well. If anything, it likely to become even more prominent in our political discourse as the 2024 election approaches. This rhetoric has been used for everything from coordinated book bans to removing social emotional learning from educational curriculum.