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The Great American Price Gouge: Why Your Grocery Bill Is a Corporate Ransom Note

The modern American experience is defined by a very specific, recurring moment of vertigo that occurs standing in the aisle of a fluorescent-lit grocery store. You are holding a box of cereal, a product made of corn dust and sugar that costs pennies to manufacture, and you are staring at a price tag that suggests
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Trump’s ICE Body Bag: Where the Amenities Are Tylenol and a Body Bag

The wind in the high desert of Victorville, California, blows with a specific, sand-blasting indifference. It strips the paint off cars and the hope off human beings with equal efficiency. In this desolate landscape sits the Adelanto ICE Processing Center, a facility that sounds like a place where one might go to renew a driver’s
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The Greatest Scam Ever Sold: How They Convinced You the Guy Next to You Stole Your Wallet

The central crisis of American life is not that we are spending too much money on avocado toast. It is not that the government is printing too much cash to fund “woke” library books. It is not even the terrifying prospect that a drag queen might read a story to a child in a public
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The FEMA Administrator Vanishes During a Flood, and Suddenly We’re All Supposed to Pretend This Is Fine

America asked for a functional disaster agency, and the administration handed us a shrug in a windbreaker. There is a particular stillness that happens right before the government announces a resignation. You can almost hear the PowerPoint slides being frantically re-saved under new filenames, the comms staff muttering into their sleeves, the soft metallic clang
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America’s New Hunger Games Begins, and the Prize Is Permission To Eat

Trump calls it “One Big Beautiful Bill,” but the only thing getting beautified is the balance sheet Congress cares about more than hungry families. The thing about austerity is that it never arrives dressed as cruelty. It shows up in a blazer, smiles politely, talks about discipline, and promises to fix the books. It nods
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Everything Since 2016 Was A Dream: The Writers’ Room Has Lost Control of the Plot

If the last decade were a TV series, even the interns would be begging the showrunners for a hard reboot before cancellation. There comes a time in every long running series when the writers lose all sense of proportion. When the storylines pile up like abandoned shopping carts, when characters behave like they have been



