Frustration has long been Americans’ dominant emotion toward the federal government. This sentiment is common across the political spectrum regardless of which party holds the presidency.
December 8, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Americans 90 days after the World Trade Center attacks: “We’re basically content!”
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 14, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Ah, yes—the famously wealthy illegal immigrants. Putting upward pressures on median-priced housing stock in urban centers.
The purpose of Trump’s tariff plan isn’t to enact 10-20 percent tax on all imported goods, but to require businesses and industries beg before him for exception.
Tariffs enacted during the Trump administration had many products excluded from the tariffs at the request of US firms, so the costs of the tariffs were lower than expected, from Robert C. Feenstra and Chang Hong https://www.nber.org/papers/w33007
October 5, 2024 at 1:06 PM
The purpose of Trump’s tariff plan isn’t to enact 10-20 percent tax on all imported goods, but to require businesses and industries beg before him for exception.
i’m just very skeptical that we’ll get a split result like this in november. if harris is 3 points ahead in georgia, i’d be shocked if she lost arizona.
September 27, 2024 at 3:28 AM
Maybe a national newspaper with some reporting resources can interview a split-ticket Gallego voter.
But that’s exactly it. Everyone was so poor and underemployed, we all lived in communal houses in cheap city centers, started bands/art collectives, threw wild parties in dilapidated warehouses. There was nothing about the job market to take seriously—so we didn’t.
It also blows my mind to see people around my age act like it was awesome to be in college and then a young adult in the late 2000s and early 2010s
Did they somehow miss the part where no one could find a job? did they memory hole that? i mean i too enjoy MGMT but that didn't really COMPENSATE
September 10, 2024 at 12:58 PM
But that’s exactly it. Everyone was so poor and underemployed, we all lived in communal houses in cheap city centers, started bands/art collectives, threw wild parties in dilapidated warehouses. There was nothing about the job market to take seriously—so we didn’t.