The Last Frontier has given us gas, gold, and glory. It’s time for us to borrow some economic policy, too.
Alaska, a state most Americans know best for its iconography of Denali and a grizzly bear snatching a salmon between its teeth, is an American outlier in many regards. The state’s political leanings are no exception—Alaska has the largest number of Independents in the Union, a symptom of its citizens’ distrust of the nation’s political institutions. Even though Alaska’s populace overwhelmingly identifies as Independent, much of its polity subscribes to the Republican ideology of small government on all […]
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