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Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for immigrants from El Salvador is set to expire on Sept. 9, 2026, a deadline that will profoundly affect the lives and businesses of not only these legal workers and their American citizen children, but also thousands of employers across America. It is true that Salvadorans no longer need protection from the grotesque criminal gangs that once threatened their lives in their homeland. Anyone who has visited El Salvador recently has seen that the government of President Nayib Bukele has begun a miraculous transformation of El Salvador, which for over 50 years experienced systemic injustice from…

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By Cory Franklin August 28th, 2026 At the legendary South Loop delicatessen, Manny’s, every stratum of Chicagoan comes to enjoy the delicious corned beef sandwiches. They eat elbow to elbow – blue collar workers, professionals, journalists, cops, figures from the Outfit and notable Democratic politicians (Republican politicians in Chicago have been extinct for many years). Two of the most prominent Democratic … Read MoreRead Full Article ⟶ Source link

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The central question should be: What are the government’s legal authorities and limits? Instead, writes Andrew Napolitano, that question has become: What can the president get away with? President Donald Trump departs the Supreme Court after attending oral arguments in the landmark birthright citizenship case on April 1. ( White House /Daniel Torok) By Andrew P. Napolitano There is a point in the decline of republics when the problem is no longer that government breaks its own laws. Governments will always behave unlawfully. The deeper problem comes when the constitutional machinery designed to prevent those acts stops functioning — when…

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Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh indicated Friday that he would consider interest rate hikes in the near future if inflation persists above the central bank’s 2 percent target. “There is one signal nobody can miss: The responsibility for 65 months of sustained, elevated inflation sits squarely with the central bank. And that is where it belongs,” Warsh, a long-time inflation hawk, said in his speech at the Fed’s annual confab at Jackson Hole, Wyoming. “Here is my standard: We must be confident that underlying inflation is moving to our objective, clearly and at sufficient speed. Otherwise, we have work to…

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By Jeremy Busby This article was originally published by Truthout As a person incarcerated in Texas, I know that rotten food and poor medical care are not unique to Delaney Hall. Recent deaths of people incarcerated at the Delaney Hall immigration jail in New Jersey have refocused public attention on the facility two months after a hunger strike inside and large protests outside made headlines. The rotten food, inadequate medical care, and deplorable living conditions at the facility were sure to claim lives and will continue to do so if left unchecked. The debacle deserves to be a national…

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Juan Cole Informed Comment Climate change devastated towns and villages of Nepal on August 26 with enormous flash floods that were produced by a melting glacier. The size, speed and relentlessness of those monstrous waters shocked anyone who saw the videos. Hundreds are dead, likely thousands are missing. What is more frightening yet is that this flooding is only the beginning, since we are rapidly heating up the earth by burning coal, fossil gas and petroleum in such mass quantities that we’re putting 38.1 billion metric tons of the dangerous heat-trapping gas, carbon dioxide, into the atmosphere every single…

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