Politics
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Karen Attiah’s Reinstatement: The Union Contract Beat the First Amendment
One day after Charlie Kirk was killed, an email landed in Karen Attiah’s inbox. It accused…
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Florida fired the people who care for its parents
Florida just helped fire the people who bathe its parents, lift its disabled residents from bed,…
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The tariff war next door is coming for the American family budget
Trump’s 50% Section 338 tariffs on Canada took effect August 22. Here is what they cost…
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One seat is not a poem. It is a door.
Angie Nixon drove herself to her own campaign stops in the kind of August heat that…
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Big Sarge Economy Watch — Vol. 1 · Issue 7
What It Costs to Live Here Now — Vol. 1, Issue 7. Inflation cooled to 3.4%…
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The Beef Bribe: A Ninety-Day Discount That Expires When the Votes Get Counted
A supplement to Big Sarge Economy Watch — Vol. 1 Issue 7. On Friday morning, the…
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Big Sarge Economy Watch — Vol. 1, Issue 6
August 17, 2026. Inflation “cooled” to 3.4% while wage growth fell to a five-year low of…
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Trump Crime Statistics Are Real. Your Gas and Light Bills Are Too.
The FBI says violent crime fell 9.3 percent in 2025. He came to a police academy…
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Navy’s 250-Day Crisis: Sailors’ Struggles and Demands for Change
The USS Abraham Lincoln has passed 250 days deployed, more than 200 of them without a…
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Tennessee’s Redistricting Impact on Black Voter Turnout
Tennessee erased its only majority-Black district eight days after Louisiana v. Callais. Ninety-one days later Shelby…
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How Early Voting Signals Trouble for Republicans in 2026 Elections
Karoline Leavitt is walking out the West Wing door with eighty-three days until the midterms. Look…
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Read the Receipts, Guard the Ballot
Trump promised to fix the economy on Day 1. Nineteen months in, he is still blaming…
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The Whiplash War, in three graphics
Yesterday I laid out the argument. Today the picture. The whole war — three ceasefires, five…
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He Knew Who Would Kill Him. That Is Not Your Defense.
Austin police say the killing of 17-year-old Anthoneil Williams II was a suicide by police. Chief…
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Nobody voted for this Iran war
Three ceasefires, five months, and a Congress that never took the vote — all are part…