Economic D-Day, Meet $40 Trillion
Trump bets he can outlast Iran as sanctions spread, Hormuz stays constricted, and America’s own borrowing costs keep climbing.
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A mother-daughter newsroom writing from Oregon to the wider world about power, cruelty, courage, and the fight for a livable future.
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The Homefront Report: Welcome to the Department of Completely Missing the Point
The forests need firefighters, seniors need affordable surgery, and flight crews need protection. Naturally, America brought logging roads, luxury eyeballs, and pretzels.
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The Homefront Report: The Government Has Entered Its Zombie Phase
Trump threatens Oman, CDC programs go undead, and ABC fights the FCC.
America Is Becoming Something the World Has to Infer
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The Homefront Report: the Billionaires are Fine, the Grass is Not
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Tendon, Not Fat: The Sequel Nobody Asked For
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Against Every Reasonable Expectation
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Subpoenas, Lawsuits and the Lido Deck
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The Homefront Report: The Trump Effect Is Taking Credit for the Rain
Immigration courts speed-run deportation, a military family discovers the limits of service, and the president claims ownership of a crime decline already in progress.
Tendon, Not Fat
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The Homefront Report: The Government Is Not His House
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Schrödinger's War, Six Months In
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