While Trump gets ready to hand out welfare checks to buy the farm vote, perhaps he should throw some money toward the Americans whom he’s…
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In an apparent effort to make life harder for farmers and poor eaters, the Sonny Perdue USDA has made a strange contracting decision that will…
Wisconsin has a Roe-overturn law similar to South Dakota’s which would ban abortion for almost every woman, including victims of rape and incest and women facing severe health…
2020—Carter’s vision, if not reëlection campaign. While Donald Trump and pious toadies like Scott Pruitt make a mockery of Christianity, Rev. Carl Kline of Brookings…
The scandalously venal, paranoid, farmer-dissing petrocrat Scott Pruitt resigned from his position as Environmental Protection Agency boss yesterday. On the way out the door, he…
On August 17, 1858, in Lewistown, Illinois, Abraham Lincoln spoke on slavery, liberty, and his Senate campaign against Stephen Douglas for two and a half…
Donald Trump is asking for authority to raise tariffs at will, in violation of the Constitution and World Trade Organization rules. His Administration has drafted…
Far from dying under the reckless Trump Administration, the Affordable Care Act is covering more Americans than when Trump took office: Some 10.6 million people were…
At Saturday’s human rights rally, my friend Joe Berns spoke stirringly and concisely about the need to teach children empathy so they will not dehumanize others…
The George W. Bush Presidential Center, whose progenitor knows a thing or 5.849 trillion about deficit spending, updates us on the current administration’s progress on…