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Editorials

Recharging the Voltage Valley must be priority

General Motors’ recent announcement of massive layoffs at Ultium Cells in Lordstown hit the Mahoning Valley like a ton of bricks. For some, it rekindled a sense of perverse deja vu, harkening back to the series of GM layoffs that began about 10 years ago and ended in 2019 with the ...

From president to profit

Donald Trump’s approval numbers continue to crater. Even Republicans have cooled on the president’s performance. But the president shows no sign of noticing, nor is he changing his ways. Even his gaslighting has gone wan. He’s failed to make Americans believe that prices are going down ...

Time for 2nd American revolution

Had enough of the consequences reverberating from the record government “shutdown”? Ready to do something about it? This is an ideal time to recall a slogan from the ’60s: “Power to the people.” We need a second American revolution, not with guns or violence, but by a provision in ...

Is it possible for the president to tax you?

This week the Supreme Court will begin the process of deciding if the president can impose a sales tax on products and services which originate in foreign countries and are purchased in the United States. The president calls these taxes tariffs. Tariffs are nearly as old as the republic and ...

Musk and Mamdani: The end of harsh capitalism?

Last week, two things happened that may shed some light on where American capitalism is heading. First, Tesla’s board caved in to Elon Musk’s demand that he get a pay package of $1 trillion (if he meets various goals). Musk’s trillion-dollar pay package is so grotesque as to make a ...

The age of brazen madness

When a 29-year-old man in Minnesota can post a TikTok video allegedly offering $45,000 for the assassination of former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, we can't dismiss it as another outburst from an online extremist. It's a symptom of something far deeper — the moral corrosion of our ...