| Apr 2, 2025 | RoundupAccording to President Trump it’s “Liberation Day,” when a broad set of tariffs will go into effect. According to one estimate, the tariffs could cost working families over $1,000 a year as importers raise prices to keep up with the tariffs. Tariffs...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyI know how it feels to be hungry and homeless. That’s why after work, I drive around town and pick up leftover food from restaurants, schools, grocery stores, and special events. My fellow volunteers and I set up in a big parking lot in our downtown to make this food...
| | Economy / Business|HP FeaturedPresident Donald Trump has said “tariff” is “the most beautiful word in the dictionary.” He claims tariffs will restore American trade supremacy, bring lost jobs back to the United States, and most bizarrely, replace income taxes. Tariffs can be a useful tool to...
| | Economy / Business|Food / Farming|HP SubfeaturedHarry Truman once proclaimed: “No man should be president who doesn’t understand hogs.” That might explain the calamitous mess that President Trump and Elon Musk are making of our government today. Clearly, Trump and Musk know nothing about four-legged farm animals....
| Mar 27, 2025 | RoundupAnother week, another round of dubious cuts. This week in OtherWords, Chuck Collins — who literally wrote the book on billionaire tax dodging — expertly explains why the Trump administration’s deep cuts to the IRS will only benefit billionaires like...
