Take a look at America's 50 counties (by GDP) In 2020, Trump won just 1 of the top 50 In 2024, he won 9 and made gains in nearly all Trump's 2024 showing in urban areas was the best for a Repub since 2004. It's one of the biggest warning signs for Dems.

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"Prioritizing activities that preserve friendships or create new ones is especially important as we grow older," Youyou Zhou writes. wapo.st/3Pbycry

Fascinating story as always by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian about the possibility of escaping nation states. The tale: exceptions are part of the structure.

Hidden in the Laken Riley Act is a particularly disturbing provision: state officials, like Texas Gov. Ken Paxton, could orchestrate the deportation of a specific person without the signoff of an ICE officer. immcouncil.co/40bOBS1

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"Americans are seeing fewer human stories and more media narratives driven by geopolitical tensions," Youyou Zhou writes. "Ordinary Americans have lost touch with ordinary Chinese." wapo.st/4awyqmK

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Musk and his businesses have received at least $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies and tax credits, often at critical moments, a Washington Post analysis has found, helping seed the growth that has made him the world’s richest person. washingtonpost.com/technology/int…

“We may have, short term, a little pain,” Trump has said of his tariffs. How much pain might consumers endure in food prices? Youyou Zhou Philip Bump & I have a new tracker that allows you to find out, using (close to) real-time price data from numeratorone

4 key takeaways from my visit to PS Furniture, one of the last remaining US commercial furniture manufacturers: 1) Yes, sales soared after 145% tariffs on China. But it would take years of that for the company to expand 2) Not a single worker thought Trump's tariffs were going

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Watching Hanna Kozlowska and my fellow bargaining unit member handle horrible layoffs and putting the newsroom's interest above their own was a privilege and a great honor: laid0ff.substack.com/p/laid-off-a-r…

Here’s what it takes to encourage Americans to have more babies, Youyou Zhou writes. wapo.st/4mFNHGG