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New York Governor Hochul Declares Emergency as SNAP Runs Out
The state will issue $65 million in assistance to food banks amid the ongoing government shutdown.
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A Portland Family Says Their Dad Was Wrongly Arrested by ICE. Now He’s Lost in Immigration Detention.
On October 15, Juan Barbosa Gomez and his wife arrived at Columbia Park in North Portland for their routine walk, unaware that they were about to enter a legal twilight zone. Suddenly, their car was surrounded by masked federal law enforcement officers, who whisked Barbosa away. For the past two weeks, Barbosa, a 60-year-old grandfather […]
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America’s $30 Trillion Publicly Held Debt Is 42 Times Larger Than It Was in 1980
In 1980, America’s publicly held debt reached more than $712 billion (about $2.8 trillion in 2025 dollars), or roughly 25 percent of annual U.S. gross domestic product (GDP). Today, that figure is a little over $30 trillion, or around 100 percent of GDP. And as the federal debt grew 42 times larger over that span, […]
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What Did A Young John Roberts Contribute To Chief Justice Rehnquist’s Opinion In Dames & Moore v. Regan?
Way back in 2014, I wrote about a very special clerk tree. A young John Roberts clerked for Chief Justice Rehnquist in 1981 when Dames & Moore v. Regan was decided. And a young William Rehnquist clerked for Justice Jackson in 1952 when Youngstown was decided. The linkage of those Justices, and cases, seemed profound. In Bank Markazi, […]
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Deplatforming Nick Fuentes Won’t Stop Antisemitism
Nick Fuentes is a right-wing podcaster and provocateur who harbors antisemitic, racist, and explicitly white nationalist views. He has claimed that “Jews are running society” and “black people should be in prison for the most part.” He is avowedly pro-Hitler and questions whether 6 million Jewish people really died in the Holocaust. He has stated […]
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How To Solve Gaza’s Hamas Problem
Disarming the group will require Arab and Muslim forces-and strong American leadership.
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Who Will Be the Next Fed Chair, and What Will They Do?
Treasury secretary Scott Bessent has a shortlist of five candidates vying to replace Jay Powell
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