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King Trump Day

If you are Donald Trump, how do you acknowledge Martin Luther King Jr.? You can’t very well issue a celebratory proclamation, since Dr. King was the epitome of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Nor can you credibly attack (or celebrate) him for his tactic of nonviolent civil disobedience, having pardoned the January 6th insurrectionists for...


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Our K-shaped economy is growing K-er by the day.

Figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics released earlier this month show that the labor share of the nation’s GDP hit the lowest point it’s bee...


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The author of a controversial memo telling Democrats to abandon the slogan “Abolish ICE” and instead focus on reform and retraining is a former Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection official who


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For the past year, it felt like we were a long way from the moment in Congress when Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) lamented that big banks “own the place.” As the Trump administration took power, a


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It’s hard to know which is more pathetic—Trump coveting the Nobel Peace Prize that was awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, or Machado giving the framed Nobel medal to Trump. Talk about cheapening the brand.

The prize comes with a stipend of 11 million Swedish kronor, which is roughly $1.2 million. That’s peanuts as Trump’s presi...


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