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In Colorado, we met Genesis, whose children rely on Medicaid, including her three-year-old battling a brain tumor. Her family also relies on SNAP. She’s struggling to afford food and gas and must stretch her very meager budget in impossible ways. You can measure the damage in spreadsheets. But numbers can’t tell you what it feels like to sit across from a parent trying to figure out how to care for a sick child.

Arthur Ashe Stadium is currently undergoing an $800 million transformation. The project will add 2,000 courtside seats, expanding the courtside section from 3,000 to 5,000 seats, alongside new luxury suites and hospitality spaces. At the same time, roughly 3,500 moderately priced loge seats are being removed. The old loge inventory averaged about $291 per session; many of the new courtside seats replacing it average more than $560, while some hospitality offerings cost more than $2,300.

The structures that enabled the mass mobilizations that pushed ICE out of Minnesota were built long before officers touched down in late 2025. During the COVID pandemic, after George Floyd was killed by police in our streets, the Movement for Black Lives taught everyone in this state what mutual aid looks like at scale. How to feed each other when regular systems fail. How to keep watch on a corner through the night. How to grieve and organize in the same breath.

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Lindsay Owens is President and CEO of Groundwork Collaborative. She is the author of Gouged: The End of a Fair Price — and What That Means for Your Wallet (Viking) and the Gouged newsletter on Substack.

Amid these worsening economic conditions, Trump has campaigned on a promise to help dairy farmers, alleging that the Canadians are “ripping us off.” But Canada’s protections for its dairy farmers are not Wisconsin dairy farmers’ problem. In fact, Wisconsin farmers have begun seeking advice from their Canadian counterparts, expressing interest in the Canadian system.

In short, Vance’s proposal would take help away from struggling single parents who need child care to work and give it to married couples where one parent can stay at home. That likely hurts more families than it helps. If Vance, or President Trump for that matter, truly cared about helping struggling families with children, he would not have championed gutting social safety net programs.

Just to be clear, these “snowflake billionaires” are whining, wailing, and donating money to fight a tax that would effectively require them to part with one-eight of the wealth they’ve gained since January 1, 2025. This group includes Google’s Sergey Brin who has been the single largest opposition donor, chipping in over $102 million to fight Prop 40.

Just to be clear, these “snowflake billionaires” are whining, wailing, and donating money to fight a tax that would effectively require them to part with one-eighth of the wealth they’ve gained since January 1, 2025. This group includes Google’s Sergey Brin who has been the single largest opposition donor, chipping in over $102 million to fight Prop 40.

VIDEO A lawsuit against Mexico brought by the U.S. sea-bed mining company Odyssey Marine Exploration had a similar outcome in 2024. In that case, the tribunal awarded $37.1 million to the company, less than 3 percent of their original demand of more than $1.3 billion. The reduced awards in these two cases are better than nothing, but a defeat is still a defeat. By finding Mexico at fault, these international tribunals have tarnished the government’s reputation.