The Price Level Was Set Under Biden. The Midterms Will Turn on Whether Republicans Say So.
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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.
America’s national debt has officially crossed $40 trillion. As of August 18, 2026, the Treasury reported the total public debt outstanding at $40,047,425,768,420. That figure more than doubled in less than a decade. Interest payments alone have become one of the largest items in the federal budget—already rivaling or exceeding what the nation spends on national defense in recent periods. The annual deficit is on track to exceed $2 trillion. This is not an abstract accounting problem. It is a direct threat to economic growth, national security, and the freedom of future generations.

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SatireA fictional dispatch from the capital, where the cure for high prices is a cost-no-object campaign reminding Americans that things cost too much.
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