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The Latest Breaking News from Herbert Hoover

Ferris Bueller scene goes viral as Trump tariffs take effect: ‘Did it work? Anyone?’

Ben Stein plays an economics teacher explaining how tariffs exacerbated the Great Depression

The Independent UK

George has his day, and so does Abe. But states honor US presidents in lots of ways

U.S. states seem to mark Presidents Day with as many different names and honors as there have been presidents

The Independent UK

Before Trump: The long US history of tariff wars with Canada and the world

From a chicken war to a banana brawl, here’s a history of tariff wars the US has fought in.

Al Jazeera

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What is USAID? The government agency Elon Musk said needs to 'die’

The agency targeted by Elon Musk has a long history of helping people in need around the world

The Independent UK

‘Wearied’ almost to death: U.S. presidents have often experienced despair amid political turmoil

The 2024 presidential election loss was bad enough for Democrats in the United States, generating dismay and woeful post-mortems throughout the ranks.

The Conversation

Millions of Mexican Americans were deported in the 1930s. Are we about to repeat this ‘ethnic cleansing’?

Nearly 2 million Mexican Americans, more than half US citizens, were deported without due process during the Great Depression, reminiscent of what is unfolding today

The Guardian - US

Abolish the FCC

Let the invisible hand regulate the invisible resource.

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Analysts say there has been one other post-election stock rally similar to Trump’s - it was in 1928

Both the Dow and S&P closed at ‘record highs’ on Friday following Trump’s re-election

The Independent UK

All the presidents Jimmy Carter’s life has overlapped with as he turns 100

The first president Jimmy Carter was alive for, William Taft, signed New Mexico into Statehood in 1912

The Independent UK

Kamala Harris is riding another wave of support following her debate with Donald Trump

Political commentators and flash polls are close to unanimous in declaring Vice President Kamala Harris the victor in her first presidential debate against Donald Trump.

The Conversation

Trump warns of 1929-style crash if Harris wins – just as Fox News ticker shows stock market at near-record high

Republican presidential nominee warns of coming financial disaster but is directly contradicted by Fox News’s showing of on-screen data

The Independent UK

To win the White House Kamala Harris must first overcome the ‘California curse’

Within the next fortnight, subject to a virtual “roll-call of Democratic Party delegates”, vice president Kamala Harris will be confirmed as the presumptive Democrat candidate for the US presidency and will engage in a full-on battle for the White House with the Republican candidate, Donald Trump.

The Conversation

The markets hate political violence, but a top historian says presidential assassinations are ‘endemic’ to American culture

If the attempted Trump assassination spells the beginning of a long period of political violence markets could become unstable.

Fortune

Trump's big con is a flop

Trump's only legislative accomplishment was a massive tax cut for the rich — and the results are now in

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Roll Call

‘One existential threat’: In shift, Biden gives Trump a tongue-lashing - Roll Call

After not saying Donald Trump's name for years, President Biden has pivoted to calling out his likely general election foe much more often.

Reason

A History of Taxpayer Revolts

Linda Upham-Bornstein's "Mr. Taxpayer versus Mr. Tax Spender" delivers an evenhanded view of American tax resistance movements.

The Guardian - US

Biden comparing Trump to Herbert Hoover a ‘cheap shot’, descendant says

Margaret Hoover takes issue with president and rival for using predecessor who battled Great Depression as example of failure

Salon

MAGA is right (sort of)

Just not the way they believe

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Biden to Make Economic Pitch in Crucial Pennsylvania Battleground State

President Biden travels to Pennsylvania to make his economic pitch, highlighting his lead over Trump in polls. He responds to Trump's wish for an economic ...

The Independent UK

Biden knocks Trump by comparing him to Herbert Hoover in new campaign video

President was responding to a viral clip of his predecessor from earlier this week

Fortune

Trump says he doesn't "want to be Herbert Hoover" and says he hopes economy crashes in next 12 months

Former president made the comments on network owned by MyPillow founder Mike Lindell.

Salon

Trump wants economy to crash — this year

He wants Americans to "lose their jobs. He wants them to lose their savings," says MSNBC host Joe Scarborough

The Independent UK

Trump says he hopes the US economy crashes this year for his own benefit

Republican insists Joe Biden’s success amounts to ‘running off the fumes of what we did’

Reason

That Time Archie Bunker Endorsed Ted Kennedy

Friday A/V Club: He wasn't really the character created by the late Norman Lear. But the advertisers did all they could to obscure that.

The Independent UK

Biden unveils new nickname for Trump

‘There are only two presidents in American history with fewer jobs the day they left office than when they started,’ Biden says

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