Tag: Donald Trump
Grocery chains are passing Trump tariff costs on to US consumers...
The price of food has increased by 3 percent in the past year, with meats, poultry, fish, and eggs getting 5.6 percent more expensive from June 2024 to June 2025.
The leader of Trump’s assault on higher education has a troubled...
Terrell, meanwhile, rebranded himself as “Leo 2.0,” attacking “DEI nonsense,” comparing Black Lives Matter to ISIS and declaring the 2020 election was “stolen from President Trump and America!”
When will MAGA Trump’s reckless war against America cause an equal,...
Trumpism has always been a bad faith magic trick but day by day becomes America’s indefensible bad joke.
How NYT’s bad reporting helped justify Trump’s tariffs on Brazil
Unlike most other countries—where Trump cited trade deficits to justify these so-called emergencies—the U.S. had maintained a trade surplus with Brazil for years.
Texas Republicans push Trump-backed map to entrench power and silence voters...
A rare mid-decade gerrymander in Texas, championed by Donald Trump, sparks lawsuits, protests, and warnings of a nationwide redistricting arms race.
The ultimate caricature
I suspect that, on returning to this eerie world of ours so many decades later, my mother might find it to be the ultimate caricature—a Trump presidency.
For-profit presidency: New Yorker Mag reveals Trump family’s frenzy to cash...
According to Kirkpatrick, Donald Trump and his immediate family have made $3.4 billion from his time in the White House, including more than $2.3 billion from various cryptocurrency ventures alone.
GOP lawmaker cashed out health investments while backing Trump’s $1 trillion...
Rep. Rob Bresnahan pledged to end congressional stock trading but has become one of the most active traders in Washington, selling healthcare assets as he voted to slash Medicaid and threaten Pennsylvania’s struggling hospitals.
DC sues Trump administration over attempted takeover of city police
District leaders warn of unprecedented assault on home rule as lawsuit seeks to block federal seizure of MPD.
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Trump-backed PAC took $5 million from tobacco giant before FDA opened door to flavored...
A multimillion-dollar contribution from Reynolds American was disclosed days before tobacco executives met with President Trump and less than a week before federal regulators issued guidance that could expand flavored vape sales and benefit major cigarette manufacturers.
Suicide is never painless—yet right-wing implosions bring positive changes
The dread now transcends democracy,/ But what survives kakistocracy?
States introduce temporary moratoriums, strict conditional restrictions pausing new construction of data centers
At least 12 states have introduced measures to temporarily ban or strictly regulate large-scale data center development
Alex Saab and the fragility of the solidarity movement
It’s difficult not to see the renewed imprisonment of Alex Saab as a disappointing capitulation to U.S. coercion after so many of us fought for his freedom, but we cannot forget the task at hand.
Democrats hid their 2024 election autopsy. Its most glaring omission may be Gaza
After months of pressure from activists and party members, the Democratic National Committee released a previously withheld 192-page review of its 2024 defeat. The document sheds light on the party’s internal postmortem while raising new questions about transparency, accountability, and the complete absence of any discussion of Gaza.