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Conor Smyth

  • Curriculum Editor, CareerFoundry
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WaPo So Worried About Deficit It Wants to Increase Pentagon Budget by Half

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By Conor Smyth
| Fair
Left out of the Washington Post‘s deficits chart (1/11/26): 1943 (26.9% of GDP), 2009 (9.8%), 2020 (14.7%), etc. The Washington Post editorial board has been on a resolutely right-wing tear recently, with editorial after editorial promoting reactionary opinions on everything from the Trump administration’s illegal kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro (1/3/26, 1/5/26; FAIR.org, 1/6/26) to Washington state’s flirtation with a millionaire’s tax (1/18/26).
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WaPo Says ‘Hard Math’ Means Europe Must Lower Its Quality of Life

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By Conor Smyth
| Fair
The European welfare state has to die. At least, that’s what the Washington Post wants you to think. In a recent news article (10/6/25) headlined “Europe’s High Quality of Life Is Getting Hard to Afford. Just Ask France,” the Post went on full offensive against European social spending.
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About That ‘AI Job Apocalypse’

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By Conor Smyth
| Truthdig Verified
Layoffs are scary. They are also rampant. Over the last 25 years, somewhere in the range of 1.5 million to 2 million people lost their jobs in a typical month as a result of being laid off or fired. Such a high level of layoffs means that there are literally always a stunning number of anecdotes about job losses. Even in a month of strong job growth and rising wages, the media can easily churn out hundreds of articles detailing the woes of recently let-go individuals.
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