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[ad_1] Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The Trump administration collected $166 billion in tariff payments before the Supreme Court struck them down. Refunds have already started hitting the bank accounts of U.S. importers — and more could be owed soon. As more than 300,000 companies scramble to get their money back, one large group is getting stiffed: American consumers. After President Trump imposed sweeping, indiscriminate tariffs on so-called “Liberation Day” last year, companies moved swiftly to pass on their higher prices to consumers. Consumers, already facing an affordability crisis — and reporting historic dissatisfaction with the economy — paid those higher prices…
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[ad_1] Since a Democratic trifecta took control of Virginia’s government in the 2025 election, two longtime progressive labor policy priorities have been front and center: repealing the state’s right-to-work law and mandating public sector collective bargaining. Now, less than six months into the Democratic reign in Richmond, pro-union forces have come away empty handed. While unions may be disappointed, Virginia taxpayers have new reason to celebrate. They also have an unlikely person to thank, at least for the moment: Gov. Abigail Spanberger, who vetoed collective bargaining legislation last week. The drama traces back to the campaign trail. Then-candidate Abigail Spanberger secured…
[ad_1] Benjamin Britten’s Midsummer Night’s Dream with members the Children’s Choirs of the Deutsche Oper and Jami Reid-Quarrell as Puck (photo: Deutsche Oper). As my sojourn in Berlin tips towards its conclusion and the return to Fortress America looms, I’m going to concerts: I’ve included one opera over the four days of the long weekend that ran from Ascension Day (Himmelfahrt)—always a Thursday—and ended last Sunday evening. Jesus’ trajectory forty days after Easter Sunday was vertical—straight up toward Heaven. His reunion with his Father—none other than himself in a different form, a family dynamic that makes any Oedipal complex exponentially…
[ad_1] 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. By Mike Ludwig This article was originally published by Truthout Backlash to Flock cameras and AI systems is exploding after scandals, including police using the tech to stalk women. In communities large and small, red and blue, all across the United States, residents are filling local council meetings in opposition to the explosive growth of high-tech police surveillance…
[ad_1] After First Lady Melania Trump held a press conference distancing herself from Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, onlookers began asking why she chose to speak up. New reports from Italian media may explain why. “I am not Epstein’s victim. Epstein did not introduce me to Donald Trump.” First Lady Melania Trump’s words rang out during her April 9 remarks as she finally broke her silence regarding her knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein’s activities. Mrs. Trump accused certain individuals of lying and being “devoid of ethical standards, humility, and respect.” While the timing of the speech was apparently unknown to even President Trump,…
[ad_1] Peace is a human right. Peace is the enabler of all civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. As the Constitution of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization[1] reminds us: “since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed.“ The United Nations recognized this right in General Assembly Resolution 39/11 of 1984 and again in Res. 71/189 of 19 December 2016. The motto of the Peace of Westphalia of 1648 deserves revisiting: Pax optima rerum. Peace is the highest good. It is also…
[ad_1] May 22, 2026 Ron Jacobs Photograph Source: Quintin Soloviev – CC BY 4.0 The international football association FIFA is more corrupt than Donald Trump and his loathsome family. The fact that FIFA’s current president Gianni Infantino and Donald Trump are playing out some kind of bromance on the stage of the upcoming World Cup is neither surprising or fit for family viewing. Beyond Infantino’s presentation of a fake peace prize to Trump, there lies a greed laced with contempt for soccer’s fans that is surpassed only by Trump’s contempt for most residents of the nation he currently rules. If…
[ad_1] When law graduates and students (joined by participants from neighbouring Kosovo and Albania) marched through Skopje in recent days demanding the right to take the bar exam in Albanian, the protests quickly became something far larger than a dispute over a legal procedure. Alongside banners invoking language rights and the presence of only Albanian and US flags, the symbols of the UÇK also appeared prominently. It shifted the demonstration from a narrowly professional claim into a politically charged act of historical and regional symbolism. Namely, UÇK is the Albanian acronym for two intertwined paramilitary movements born of the Yugoslav…