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Trump Clearly Prefers Billionaires to His Base
Will the MAGA base ever figure out they've been played?
Farm country provided Trump with some of his most fervent support. Farmers are now being tossed aside by Trump policies, none of which he seems interested in dialing back.
A trade war would be disastrous. Farm products are a major U.S. export. Last year, the U.S. exported more than $30 ...Read more
America Can't Rely on Others to Solve Our Drug Crisis
Fentanyl presents America with a terrible dilemma. More than 74,000 Americans died in 2023 after taking fentanyl or other drugs with fentanyl mixed in. There is no proven blueprint for stopping the scourge. We've spent over half a century trying to address the problem. The war on drugs that Richard Nixon declared in 1971 has produced nothing ...Read more
Three Ways for Democrats to Respond
As Elon Musk takes a jackhammer to American institutions, Democrats seem frozen in confusion. That's in part because Donald Trump serves as wingman, diverting attention from the sabotage of government services through a carpet-bombing of bizarre plans, most recently, having the U.S. empty Gaza of Gazans to build a Mediterranean resort for "the...Read more