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FactCheck.org has won a National Headliner Award for online beat reporting of government and political coverage. Our series on “How Project 2025 Has Unfolded Under Trump” won first place in that category. The series, which was published over several days in late September and early October, was written by Eugene Kiely, our former director. Eugene explained in detail how President Donald Trump was implementing or trying to implement many elements of Project 2025, a policy manual that was produced by the Heritage Foundation and written by veterans of Trump’s administrations or campaigns, along with other conservatives. Trump had distanced himself…

A new study just published by the prestigious American Economic Review may be the most important recent social science article most nonexperts have never heard of. It’s entitled “Zero-Sum Thinking and the Roots of US Political Differences” and the authors are Sahil Chinoy, Nathan Nunn, Sandra Sequeira, and Stefanie Stantcheva. Here is the abstract: We investigate the origins and implications of zero-sum thinking: the belief that gains for one individual or group tend to come at the cost of others. Using a new survey of 20,400 US residents, we measure zero-sum thinking, political preferences, policy views, and a rich array…

A short film about a breakthrough Cuban drug for treating Alzheimer’s shines light on the resilience of a nation striving to innovate under the constraints of the American blockade and threats of an invasion. The National Capitol of Cuba in Havana, built in 1929 in 2014. (Michael Oswald / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain) By Ullekh NPOPEN Cuba is going through perhaps its toughest existential challenge since the Revolution of 1959, with fresh American sanctions choking supply lines and triggering widespread disruptions, including a grave energy crisis, frequent blackouts and worsening food shortages.  Yet, even as threats of a U.S. invasion…

Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed RECORDED APRIL 13, 2026 via TheLastAmericanVagabond.com: Joining me once again today is James Corbett, here to discuss Trump’s actions around the Strait of Hormuz, how they have affected the global economy, and whether all of this is just another step in the the bipartisan Great Reset agenda or just another US government blunder driven by the Zionist state of Israel. We discuss the larger idea of the Technate and its connections to today, the Network State agenda and its role in the technocratic transition, as well as the historical role that energy has played in the control of our lives…

Do you want to know the good news about the minimum wage? In most parts of the country, it is practically irrelevant. The last federal minimum wage increase went into effect on July 24, 2009, raising it from $6.55 an hour to $7.25. We have experienced nearly 50 percent inflation since then, yet the minimum wage has stayed the same. Even in 2009, only 4.9 percent of workers were actually paid $7.25 an hour, and that number has dropped to 1.1 percent today. This is good news: It means that the minimum wage is so low relative to the median…

Logo for the First International Conference on the Just Transition Away from Fossil Fuels – Fair Use Not much good comes from war.  Qualifying exceptions, however, can be found. The United Nations, tarnished, libelled and mocked for being simultaneously ineffectual and intrusive, was the mediating entity for international relations that grew from the calamities of the Second World War.  Without that somewhat frail body, it is hard to imagine how the patchwork of human rights, however uneven, could have been stitched.  The Iran War, and the consequential choking of the Strait of Hormuz by Tehran and Washington respectively have also had an unintended,…

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In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we’re doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible donation.  Kyle Anzalone A ceasefire can be the start of peace, or it can be the quiet moment when both sides reload. That’s the question driving my return conversation with Professor Glenn Diesen as we dissect the US-Iran negotiations, the sudden focus on a short extension, and the strategic shockwave created when Iran seizes leverage around the Strait of Hormuz.…

There is something increasingly difficult to ignore about the global economic climate of 2026, and it isn’t something that appears in headlines or official summaries. On paper, the system still functions. Growth has not disappeared, markets have not fully collapsed, and institutions continue to operate with a sense of normalcy. Yet beneath this apparent stability, a different pattern is emerging—one that is far less visible, but far more consequential. According to recent macroeconomic assessments, global growth remains modest, hovering just above three percent, a figure that would typically signal resilience. However, what makes this moment unusual is not the number…