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Goolsbee’s Tariff Watch: Is Inflation Temporary or Stagflation Risk in Disguise?
Tariffs, Inflation, and the Stagflation Watch: A Data-Driven Reading of Goolsbee's Warnings On Tuesday, Austan Goolsbee, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, warned that tariff-driven price hikes may not be a one-off. The core concern: if inflation proves...
Principles, Polls, and the Price of Gridlock: Why the Shutdown Debate Hits the Middle Class
Principles, Polls, and the Price of Gridlock: Why the Shutdown Debate Hits the Middle Class When we talk about governing, the conversation often turns to words like “principle,” “compromise,” and “fiscal responsibility.” But behind those buzzwords are real families who...
Unmasking the Silence: How Media, Hate, and Guns Intersect in Mass Shootings
Unmasking the Silence: Mass Shootings, Media Spin, and the Weaponization of Hate Another week, another shooting, another set of families torn apart. Two incidents, two different faith communities, and two grieving futures. But the throughline is unmissable: MAGA-fueled rage, anti-LGBTQ+...
Battle Lines in the Conservative Arena: Erika Kirk, TPM, and the Morality Test
Rift in the Movement: Erika Kirk, TPM, and the Morality Test In the thick of our culture wars, how we honor the fallen and how we lead our movements matter more than the latest viral moment. The clash between Nick...
Taiwan-US Chip Talks: A 50-50 Split Isn’t the Path—What the Reality Teaches About Tech Policy
Taiwan-US Chip Talks: Why a 50-50 Split Won’t Happen—and What That Means for Global Tech The drumbeat around a proposed U.S.–Taiwan 50-50 split of semiconductor production collides with a reality: Taiwan has signaled that such an arrangement wasn’t discussed, and...
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Masked Antifa Whistleblower Interview Sparks Identity Theories
Quick take Fox News host Jesse Watters interviewed a masked figure described as an “Antifa whistleblower.” Observers soon noted a striking facial resemblance to a guest from 2023, Ramon “Mundo” Mendoza, who Watters said was a former Mexican Mafia member....
Greene defection exposes GOP health care fault lines in shutdown standoff
Greene defection highlights health care cracks in GOP shutdown unity A political fault line surfaces as Congress fights over extending enhanced ObamaCare subsidies amid a funding deadline. Executive snapshot: what’s at stake The fight over the enhanced ObamaCare subsidies—those COVID-era...
Democrats’ Crime Messaging 2026: A People-First Plan for Safety and Opportunity
Reframing the Crime Debate: A Toolkit for Democrats Trying to Protect the Middle Class If you’ve spent any time in a neighborhood where a grocery store closes early because the block doesn’t feel safe, you know crime isn’t just a...
Shutdown Stakes: Pragmatism in a Time of Partisan Brinkmanship
Shutdown Stakes: Pragmatism in a Time of Partisan Brinkmanship A data-driven, policy-first look at the ongoing government shutdown, the leverage politics behind it, and the path toward credible, bipartisan solutions that protect essential services while respecting constitutional processes. Context: What’s...
From Watergate to the Patel Era: The Fragile Boundary Between Police Independence and Presidential Loyalty
Guardrails, Purges, and the Long Shadow of Watergate: A Historian’s Skeptical Tour of FBI Independence Three converging shocks in the 1970s—Watergate, the collapse of the Vietnam withdrawal’s credibility, and the Empire of Hoover’s abuses—eroded the public’s near-automatic trust in the...
