Commentary
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There is something uniquely obscene about a politician announcing himself as the champion of affordability after years of watching people drown and calling it background noise. Donald Trump did not stumble into this claim innocently. He has seized it because his usual weapons grievance outrage spectacle are no longer enough. Voters are exhausted. The bills
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Not smoke. Not patriotism. Fear. The kind that sets in when too many powerful people realize the paper trail might finally catch up to them. The administration is racing to redact the Epstein files like they’re trying to beat a storm surge with a thimble. Names blacked out. Pages sealed. Timelines “under review.” Transparency, apparently,
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The President Who Thinks Americans Do Not Know What Magnets Are Yet Falls In Love With Every Strongman On Earth Including New York’s New Governor By Solin for PragmaticIssues.com The Setup America can put robots on Mars. America can build skyscrapers in months. America can run an entire nation off five minutes of engineering.
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Congress Has One Last Chance to Prove It Isn’t Still the Same Cowardly Institution That Betrayed Us in the 80s I grew up in the eighties when adults pretended child abuse was a misunderstanding or a family matter or something kids “misinterpreted.” It was the decade where schools covered it churches hid it police departments
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The Trump administration has unveiled a dramatic shift in national homelessness policy: major cuts to long-term housing in favor of transitional programs tied to work requirements, addiction treatment and behavioral accountability. To the casual observer — and frankly, to many of us exhausted by decades of failure — it sounds like the first rational
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Trump and America Want Transitional Housing. The Idea Is Brilliant. The Infrastructure Is a Fantasy.
The Idea Is Brilliant. The Infrastructure Is a Fantasy. The Idea Is Not the Problem, the Capacity Is There is nothing inherently cruel or misguided about transitional housing. In fact, when done well, it is one of the most humane approaches available. It provides structure, expectations, community and momentum. It treats people as participants
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