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There’s a bitter irony playing out across America’s farmland: many of the same farmers who loudly backed Donald Trump are now being crushed by the very policies they applauded. Trump promised to “stand up for farmers,” yet his trade wars…
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For all the drama surrounding a government shutdown, Congress has made one thing painfully clear: it’s unbothered by the consequences as long as those consequences fall on ordinary Americans. If a prolonged shutdown means people lose health care, that’s dismissed…
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Why Nothing Sticks to Trump (Not Even Epstein) By Heywood Reynolds It’s not that there’s just one thing wrong with Donald Trump, it’s that so much is wrong with him. And strangely, that might be the source of his resilience.…
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Donald Trump has done it again: labeling “Antifa” a terrorist organization, as if it were a centralized group with a hierarchy, a payroll, and a board of directors. Spoiler alert: it isn’t. Antifa isn’t a group. It’s not a club…
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Florida has decided to take public health into its own hands—by basically ignoring it. The state is moving to eliminate all vaccine mandates for schoolchildren, including shots for chickenpox, hepatitis B, and certain bacterial infections. Because nothing says “innovation” like…
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement loves to insist it’s just following the law, blind to race, treating everyone equally under the red, white, and blue. But if ICE isn’t looking at skin color to decide who to stop, detain, and deport,…
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Donald Trump has always seen himself less as a politician and more as a marketer. To him, governing is a branding exercise. A building isn’t complete until his name is slapped on it in gold letters. Why should government agencies…
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The latest chapter in America’s never-ending culture war is unfolding in—of all places—the bathroom. Legislators in several states have decided that one of the gravest threats facing society is not climate change, not gun violence, not health care costs, but…
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Once again, America is reeling from a mass shooting. In this case, the perpetrator happened to be transgender. Predictably, some voices will seize on that fact to push their own political agenda, suggesting that gender identity itself is to blame.…
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This is a tough one, particularly if you’re a moron.
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