United States finished the year with a record high $1.2 trillion trade deficit
There is a peculiar arithmetic at work in the nation’s ledgers these days, a sum that refuses to balance no matter how high you pile the tariffs. The Commerce Department has released its final tally for 2025, and the numbers tell a story that the president’s promises cannot quite square. The United States finished the…
Fascist politicians spend more, accomplish less, and kill Americans on the way
There is a bitter arithmetic being proposed in Washington these days, a sum that does not add up no matter how you figure it, and it arrives with a history that makes the numbers even harder to swallow. Having formally withdrawn the United States from the World Health Organization, the administration is now quietly crafting…
The Garden State’s rotten harvest apparent in Booker’s network of corruption
The scene was pure political theater—the kind of slick, stage-managed spectacle that makes your teeth ache from the sugar-coating on February 21, 2019, when Senator Cory Booker stood bathed in the glow of home-state adoration Grinning like a man who’d just hit the jackpot in Atlantic City, a wall of power brokers behind him—Governor Phil…
Justice Department official says federal government cannot be bothered to obey court orders
The Trump administration admitted to widespread flouting of court orders in immigration cases, almost daring judge to do anything about it. There is a sickness in the machinery of justice, a grinding gear that slips and catches and slips again, and this week we were handed the maintenance log. It is not a pretty read.…
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