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[ad_1] Americans are facing the longest and most painful affordability crisis in our entire history, and young people are being hit the hardest. For many Americans under the age of 40, homeownership is just a dream that will probably never come true. At this point, only workers that make at least six figures can afford to buy a decent home. If you can believe it, the home that Homer Simpson lived in would cost approximately 450,000 dollars today, and the home that was featured on Married With Children would cost approximately 700,000 dollars today. Those families were considered to be…

[ad_1] Faith in America is still discussed in categories of decline and partisanship. But the people wading into the Allegheny aren’t voting with a party ballot. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Tareq S. Hajjaj, Mondoweiss. ‘They destroy, we build.’ As Israel continues to prevent the entry of reconstruction materials into Gaza, Palestinians rebuild their homes with salvaged rebar, recovered limestone, and clay. “This is the evidence of our love for our land,” Fayez Abu Shamala tells Mondoweiss. Next to his destroyed home in Khan Younis, Fayez Abu Shamala, 76, a Palestinian academic and former mayor of Khan Younis, is building again. Abu Shamala salvaged usable stones from the debris of destroyed buildings, collected and repaired them, and, with the help of his family, built a small house. Instead of cement,…

[ad_1] American Icon: The US Flag in Art National Gallery of Art, June 6–December 6 In 1954, Jasper Johns had a dream of himself painting an American flag. When he woke up, the artist executed his first work on the theme, in encaustic. More flags soon followed. Johns worked experimentally, often using outré materials and positioning the flag in strange configurations. But the basic form always remained the same: a rectangular field emblazoned with stars and stripes. It became an obsession. The flag’s design was so staid, reliable. He could really give himself over to it. And, in so doing, Johns…

[ad_1] Photo by Alex Haney In 2024, Floridians voted, by a margin of 55.9% to 44.1%, to legalize recreational marijuana. Unfortunately, the threshold for passage of “Amendment 3” was 60% and the measure failed. So far, so bad … but it gets worse. Nearly two years later we’ve learned that state government officials misappropriated millions of dollars in taxpayer money; funneled it through a charity founded by governor Ron DeSantis’s wife and into Republican PACs operated by the man who later became the state’s attorney general, with the approval of the then sitting attorney general, now a US Senator; and…

[ad_1] Iran launched more retaliatory attacks on Thursday, targeting U.S. assets in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. President Donald Trump had warned Iran not to retaliate against recent U.S. strikes. On Tuesday, Trump wrote on Truth Social:  If the failed Nation of Iran retaliates for this very justified attack, they will be hit again at a much harder and higher level, but it will not be the biggest attack of them all, that is waiting in the wings and, when it is over, there will be very little left of the Islamic Republic of Iran! The new Iranian attacks…

[ad_1] Governments Should Heed the Bond Market's Warning [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair When the Trump administration abducted the Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife on January 3, an open incitement to international lawbreaking was asserted.  Here was thuggish impunity, crude acquisition and harsh plunder in operation: the seizure of a sovereign leader in office on fanciful narco-terrorist charges, a violation of the territorial sanctity of a state guaranteed by Article 2 of the United Nations Charter, and the demand that Venezuela be compliant with Washington’s objectives in its vulgar reiteration of the Monroe Doctrine.  The prize was clearly oil. Towards the end of August, President Donald Trump…

[ad_1] Bad Medicine: Billions Wasted on Unnecessary Treatments [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Austin Sarat: Democrats should stop pretending Supreme Court reform can be done and win more elections [ad_2] Source link