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Democrats’ Affordability Message Is a Slogan, Not a Plan
Democrats’ 2026 midterm message on prices is mostly a slogan and a blame assignment, not a communicated plan to lower them.
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The Price Level Was Set Under Biden. The Midterms Will Turn on Whether Republicans Say So.
Two Visions: November 3 Is a Choice, Not a Mood
Thirty-eight days. A House majority. A country with a border, police, and markets, or a faction that ran this year on abolishing them.
Evidence of Lucidity and Deliberate Decision-Making in the Lindsay Clancy Case
Lindsay Clancy has admitted to strangling her three children—Cora, 5; Dawson, 3; and Callan, 8 months—with exercise bands in the basement of their Duxbury, Massachusetts home on January 24, 2023. Her defense argues she should not be held criminally responsible because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and other mental illness that left her without substantial capacity to appreciate the wrongfulness of her actions or conform her conduct to the law.
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SatireWashington Unveils $4.2 Billion ‘Affordability Awareness’ Campaign
A fictional dispatch from the capital, where the cure for high prices is a cost-no-object campaign reminding Americans that things cost too much.
Fictional political humor—not factual reporting.
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