Why Don’t Our Politicians Ever Do Anything?

The American mega-crisis is being fueled by unprecedented ineptitude from elected officials

Jared Barlament
4 min readApr 24, 2022

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Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, has been insider trading for years. Everyone knows. No one cares. And she’s not even alone; 59 members of Congress just this year violated the anti-insider trading STOCK Act, each…

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Jared Barlament

Columbia University undergrad studying archaeology and philosophy. Writer trying to say something of interest every once in a while.