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“The American economy has left other rich countries in the dust,” Simon Rabinovitch and Henry Curr wrote. If Trump had left that system in place, he would have gotten credit for a booming economy as the investments made under Biden took hold.
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December 19, 2025
This past week feels like the final, chaotic days of a political era.
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December 21, 2025 at 12:19 AM
“The American economy has left other rich countries in the dust,” Simon Rabinovitch and Henry Curr wrote. If Trump had left that system in place, he would have gotten credit for a booming economy as the investments made under Biden took hold.
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FRI is the sixth day of the 12 days of Christmas!
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FRI is the sixth day of the 12 days of Christmas!
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Monday is the 2nd day of my 12 days of Christmas d3 postings!
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Monday is the 2nd day of my 12 days of Christmas d3 postings!
Celebrating the First Day of the 12 Days of Christmas!
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Celebrating the First Day of the 12 Days of Christmas!
Last year, under President Joe Biden, the White House celebrated Human Rights Day by recommitting to “upholding the equal and inalienable rights of all people.” The U.S. government did not recognize Human Rights Day this year.
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December 10, 2025
Today is Human Rights Day, celebrated internationally in honor of the day seventy-seven years ago, December 10, 1948, when the United Nations General Assembly announced the Universal Declaration of Hu...
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December 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Last year, under President Joe Biden, the White House celebrated Human Rights Day by recommitting to “upholding the equal and inalienable rights of all people.” The U.S. government did not recognize Human Rights Day this year.
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"Ultimately, the struggle between fascism and democracy was the question of equality. Were all men really created equal as the Declaration of Independence said, or were some born to lead the rest, whom they held subservient to their will?" HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
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December 6, 2025
On the sunny Sunday morning of December 7, 1941, Messman Doris Miller had served breakfast aboard the USS West Virginia, stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and was collecting laundry when the first of...
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December 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"Ultimately, the struggle between fascism and democracy was the question of equality. Were all men really created equal as the Declaration of Independence said, or were some born to lead the rest, whom they held subservient to their will?" HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
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"The) claim that America is making world peace comes from an administration that is indeed feared, resented and obsessed over, but one that is less respected or trusted than any American government in decades." The ECONOMIST
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Donald Trump’s bleak, incoherent foreign-policy strategy
Allies may panic; despots will cheer
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December 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
"The) claim that America is making world peace comes from an administration that is indeed feared, resented and obsessed over, but one that is less respected or trusted than any American government in decades." The ECONOMIST
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"Ukraine will need solid military and financial support for the foreseeable future, and it will have to come from Europe. It is still not clear that Europeans grasp this." The ECONOMIST
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Enough dithering. Europe must pay to save Ukraine
America will not. Europe’s security depends on agreeing how to
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December 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
"Ukraine will need solid military and financial support for the foreseeable future, and it will have to come from Europe. It is still not clear that Europeans grasp this." The ECONOMIST
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"This is one of the most shameful episodes in American foreign policy, and the entire Republican Party is complicit in its perpetuation." THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
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Opinion | The ‘Useful Idiots’ From America Whom Putin Is Playing Like a Flute
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December 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
"This is one of the most shameful episodes in American foreign policy, and the entire Republican Party is complicit in its perpetuation." THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
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"(G)overnments must build consensus around a stronger, greener, more secure democracy, one able to inspire their own supporters and win back the disillusioned. The problem: They’re blowing it." DAVID BRODER
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Opinion | They Were Supposed to Save Europe. Instead, They’re Condemning It to Horrors.
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December 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
"(G)overnments must build consensus around a stronger, greener, more secure democracy, one able to inspire their own supporters and win back the disillusioned. The problem: They’re blowing it." DAVID BRODER
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"From a legal standpoint, it’s important to reiterate the baseline: There is no basis in law for the maritime attacks. Period. Full stop." TPM
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‘The Order Was to Kill Everybody’: A Savage Incident at Sea
The Implications Are Vast and Serious The explosive holiday story from the...
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December 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"From a legal standpoint, it’s important to reiterate the baseline: There is no basis in law for the maritime attacks. Period. Full stop." TPM
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The Trump administration froze foreign aid early in the year, derailing many public health programs dedicated to fighting H.I.V. Modeling studies have suggested that cuts by the United States could result in 10 million additional H.I.V. infections. NYT
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Trump Administration Will No Longer Commemorate World AIDS Day
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November 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The Trump administration froze foreign aid early in the year, derailing many public health programs dedicated to fighting H.I.V. Modeling studies have suggested that cuts by the United States could result in 10 million additional H.I.V. infections. NYT
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"This is about the fact that you are the chairman of the health committee...you voted to confirm somebody that…is actually making America less healthy.” JAKE TAPPER CNN
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Cassidy Delivers Floor Speech in Support of RFK, Jr. to be HHS Secretary | U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) spoke on the U.S. Senate floor today to detail his decision to vote for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to serve as U.S. Secretary of the Department of Healt...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:12 AM
"This is about the fact that you are the chairman of the health committee...you voted to confirm somebody that…is actually making America less healthy.” JAKE TAPPER CNN
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"He openly uses his position to enrich America’s ruling clan — his family — with one billion-dollar deal after another."
Noah Shachtman NYT
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Noah Shachtman NYT
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Opinion | The Real Reason Trump Is Fawning Over Saudi Arabia’s Ruler
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November 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
"He openly uses his position to enrich America’s ruling clan — his family — with one billion-dollar deal after another."
Noah Shachtman NYT
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Noah Shachtman NYT
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Russia’s meddling in Trump-era politics was more directly connected to the current war than previously understood.
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The Untold Story of ‘Russiagate’ and the Road to War in Ukraine (Published 2022)
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November 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Russia’s meddling in Trump-era politics was more directly connected to the current war than previously understood.
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"(It) is plainly harder for an economy to thrive in the long run when the most important question for a boss is: “Do you know the president?” The ECONOMIST
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Welcome to Anything Goes America
Where the loosening of rules and tolerance of corruption will lead
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November 20, 2025 at 9:02 PM
"(It) is plainly harder for an economy to thrive in the long run when the most important question for a boss is: “Do you know the president?” The ECONOMIST
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"By taking action, Europe might find that it can achieve two things: show Mr. Putin that he cannot easily get away with transgressions against Europeans and remind Mr. Trump why Europe is worth backing." By Gabrielius Landsbergis
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Opinion | Nothing Succeeds With Trump Quite Like Success
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November 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
"By taking action, Europe might find that it can achieve two things: show Mr. Putin that he cannot easily get away with transgressions against Europeans and remind Mr. Trump why Europe is worth backing." By Gabrielius Landsbergis
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A 2024 analysis by Political Explorer found that more than 2,000 counties out of more than 3,000 reported an increase in the number of households receiving SNAP from 2010 to 2020. Mr. Trump won nearly 80 percent of those counties in that presidential election.
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Fact-Checking Trump’s Claim About SNAP and Partisanship
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November 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
A 2024 analysis by Political Explorer found that more than 2,000 counties out of more than 3,000 reported an increase in the number of households receiving SNAP from 2010 to 2020. Mr. Trump won nearly 80 percent of those counties in that presidential election.
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Far from shying away from a financial contest with the Kremlin, Europe should embrace it—and win the war. ECONOMIST
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Why funding Ukraine is a giant opportunity for Europe
The bill will be huge. It is also a historic bargain
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October 31, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Far from shying away from a financial contest with the Kremlin, Europe should embrace it—and win the war. ECONOMIST
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“In the near term, risks to inflation are tilted to the upside, and risks to employment to the downside, a challenging situation.”
-Jerome Powell, Federal Reserve Bank chairman
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-Jerome Powell, Federal Reserve Bank chairman
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October 30, 2025
House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) continues to try to pin the upcoming catastrophic lapse in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) funding on the Democrats.
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October 31, 2025 at 2:24 PM
“In the near term, risks to inflation are tilted to the upside, and risks to employment to the downside, a challenging situation.”
-Jerome Powell, Federal Reserve Bank chairman
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-Jerome Powell, Federal Reserve Bank chairman
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“USDA’s claim that the SNAP contingency funds cannot be used to fund SNAP benefits during an appropriation lapse is contrary to the plain text of the congressional appropriations law." HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
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October 29, 2025
Today is the twenty-ninth day of the government shutdown, and the House of Representatives is still on break as House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) continues to try to force the Senate to pass the House...
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October 30, 2025 at 3:13 PM
“USDA’s claim that the SNAP contingency funds cannot be used to fund SNAP benefits during an appropriation lapse is contrary to the plain text of the congressional appropriations law." HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
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"The rising standards of living of the 1920s mainly benefited white, middle-class, urban Americans. The new economy of the 1920s benefited too few Americans to be sustainable."
HEATHER COX RICHARSON
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HEATHER COX RICHARSON
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October 28, 2025
In the election of 1920, Americans handed a landslide victory to the Republicans and their presidential candidate Warren G.
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October 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
"The rising standards of living of the 1920s mainly benefited white, middle-class, urban Americans. The new economy of the 1920s benefited too few Americans to be sustainable."
HEATHER COX RICHARSON
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HEATHER COX RICHARSON
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