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Predators and Prey: What the science says about why the morbidly rich dominate poor working people

Nature and economics share some fascinating patterns. One of which explains why Donald Trump became president again, and how the morbidly rich have appropriated over $50 trillion from working-class people since the 1980s. Scientists use something called the Lorka-Volterra equations to explain how predators and prey interact in the wild. These equations show us that animal populations rise and fall in predictable cycles — when there are lots of rabbits, fox populations grow, but as foxes eat more rabbits, the rabbit population shrinks, which then causes fox numbers to drop, allowing rabbits to multiply again. Incredibly, this back-and-forth pattern...

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Fabricated border emergency comes after President Biden spent years calming the turmoil Trump caused

Long stretches of silence on a Border Patrol scanner are punctuated with updates on tracking a single migrant for hours. The radio traffic sounds like a throwback to earlier times, before the United States became the largest destination for asylum-seekers in 2017. “There’s a pair way down there. We’ll see if they start moving up,” one agent says. “Yeah, maybe they’ll try to move north in a bit,” another responds. Saying that “America’s sovereignty is under attack,” President Donald Trump’s declaration of a false border emergency comes at a time of relative calm after years of deep turmoil. Active-duty...

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Pardons by Trump and Biden highlight the dread and distrust of each other and a broken justice system

A day that began with the outgoing president’s pardon of lawmakers and his own family ended with the incoming president’s pardon of supporters who violently stormed the U.S. Capitol four years ago. The clemency grants by departing President Joe Biden and new President Donald Trump — one benefiting uncharged people not accused of wrongdoing, the other aiding rioters convicted of violent felonies — are vastly different in scope, impact, and their meaning for the rule of law. But the remarkable flex of executive authority in a 12-hour span also shows the men’s deeply rooted suspicion of one another, with...

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Rewarding the rich: How Trump’s reelection reverses President Biden’s work to rebuild the middle class

In 1883, the Republican Party moved into full-throated support for the industrialists who were concentrating the nation’s wealth into their own hands while factory workers stayed above the poverty line only by working 12 hours a day, seven days a week. It was Yale sociologist William Graham Sumner who responded to those worried about the extremes of wealth and poverty in the country with his book “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other.” Sumner concluded it was unfair that “worthy, industrious, independent, and self-supporting” men should be taxed to support those he claimed were lazy. Worse, he said, such...

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Trump’s comeback: Why President Biden’s promise to restore the “soul of America” fell short

Joe Biden promised nothing short of a national exorcism when he took office. He wanted to “restore the soul” of the country and prove that Donald Trump was only a footnote in the American story, not its next chapter. The pitch was “let’s try to get things back to normal as best we can,” said Sean Wilentz, a historian who met twice with Biden in the White House. It did not work out that way. Despite exceeding expectations when it came to cutting bipartisan deals and rallying foreign allies, Biden was unable to turn the page on Trump. Four...

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Korean War veteran awarded the Medal of Honor was among other heroes recognized by President Joe Biden

On February 15, 1951, Army Pvt. Bruno R. Orig was returning from a mission when he found his fellow soldiers under attack in what is now known as the Battle of Chipyong-ni. The infantryman provided first aid to his comrades wounded in the Korean War attack and began helping move those men to safety. He then took over a machine gun post and allowed a friendly platoon to pull back without a casualty. When the ground was recaptured later that day, Orig was found dead beside the machine gun, surrounded by enemy combatants he had killed. Orig was among...

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