The Big Beautiful Bill — a massive package of tax relief, more funding for immigration enforcement, and savings from entitlement reforms — is now law, and it's a triumph not only for President Donald Trump but for the whole Republican Party. The GOP passed two make-or-break tests here: ...
Trump's Big Ugly Bill delivers $170 billion for border and immigration enforcement. This is on the scale of supplemental budgets passed by the United States when we enter war. ICE will add 10,000 agents to the 20,000 already on the streets. Its annual budget for detentions will skyrocket from ...
The findings of a Gallup poll released at the end of June showed a higher percentage of people feeling less proud to be American. There was a stark division along partisan lines, which, given the Free America protests against President Donald Trump's policies on immigration, Medicaid and his ...
Literature fuels empathy and conversation. It can foster belonging and it can also fuel productive discourse. But only if you actually read. If you choose to opt out altogether, you only fuel ignorance, which is what the Supreme Court ruling on Mahmoud v. Taylor accomplished. Parents can now ...
Democrats can say the wildest and craziest things and know that all those badly named "mainstream" media outlets and fact-checkers won't care in the slightest. Sen. Bernie Sanders can call the Republicans a Stalinist cult. Rep. Pramila Jayapal can call ICE a "terrorist force." It's all fair ...
After nearly 10 years away, I returned to the Daily Mining Gazette in December, in the re-branded position of Community Editor. I've essentially have the same duties and responsibilities I had in my former position as Managing Editor, but the new name emphasizes our commitment to the people and ...