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The Repo Man Wears a MAGA Hat: Trump Administration Decides That the Only Thing Trickling Down is Interest
The government has decided that the biggest threat to the American economy is a twenty-six-year-old with a degree in graphic design and an extra two hundred dollars a month. There is a specific kind of silence that falls over a generation when they realize the safety net was actually a trap door. For the last
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The Red Fortress of Miami Has Fallen to a Woman Named Eileen
It turns out that telling a city of immigrants that immigrants are the problem is not a winning strategy, even if you say it in Spanish. In a development that has caused political strategists in Washington to spill their double espressos and check their maps to ensure Miami is still in Florida, Democrat Eileen Higgins
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The Red Hat Welfare State: Trump’s $12 Billion “Bridge” Is Just a Toll Road You Paid For Twice
Welcome to the Golden Age of Conservative Socialism, where the government is the problem unless you own a tractor, in which case the government is a limitless ATM. There is a specific, bitter irony that settles in when you watch a political movement dedicated to “free markets” and “personal responsibility” suddenly decide that the federal
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The Freedom to Go Broke: Republicans Unveil Their Plan to Liberate You From Affordable Healthcare
The GOP has finally found a solution to the problem of people having health insurance. It involves taking the money away and giving you a coupon for a savings account you cannot afford to fund. There is a specific kind of grim comedy that defines American healthcare policy. It is the comedy of a man
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The Two-Week Autopsy: How Congress Solved a War Crime with a Single Shrug
If a missile strikes a survivor in the Caribbean and Mike Rogers is there to ignore it, did it even happen? In the annals of American military oversight, there are investigations that take years, thousands of pages of testimony, and forensic deep dives that uncover the very soul of the machine. And then there is
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Trump Affordability Hoax: Welcome to the Carnival of Economic Gaslighting Where the Cotton Candy Costs a Mortgage
When the President tells you the price of eggs is down, but your receipt says you just took out a second mortgage for an omelet, you are living in the Golden Age of the Grift. On Tuesday night, the traveling circus of the forty-seventh presidency descended upon Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, bringing with it the familiar