MAGA Rep. Slams Trump’s Shady Takeover of Businesses
10 Sep
Business News

MAGA Rep. Slams Trump’s Shady Takeover of Businesses

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Business President Donald Trump’s MAGA agenda is increasingly at odds with free market economics, and some key conservatives are beginning to notice. At least one Republican—Texas Representative Chip Roy—has harpooned the president’s Intel deal, reminding CNBC Thursday that government stakes in private entities defies conservative values. Roy also challenged the Trump administration’s intent to develop a state-owned investment fund known as a sovereign wealth fund. “I think the problem here is that we built up through the broken system and the swamp, this world in which these corporations depend so heavily on the government, when in fact what they should be doing is producing products and competing in the market,” Roy said. “What I don’t like is taking up stakes in private entities,” he continued. “And in terms of a sovereign wealth fund, we’ve got...
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In Trump’s America, Vaccination Rates are Declining and Measles Is Spreading
13 Aug
Health News

In Trump’s America, Vaccination Rates are Declining and Measles Is Spreading

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August 13, 2025 Trump and RFK Jr. have made every effort to undermine one of the major civilizing advances of the 20th century—our public health infrastructure US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks behind President Donald Trump during an executive orders signing event in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 5, 2025. (Alex Wroblewski / Getty Images) New data from the CDC suggests a grim back-to-school tradition emerging: In 2024, kindergarten vaccination rates declined for the fifth consecutive year. Meanwhile, vaccine exemptions reached a record high. These statistics became all the more disturbing last fall when, shortly after 286,000 children began their educations without proof of full immunity against measles, a man who has bragged about never getting a flu shot was reelected to the presidency. Since then,...
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Trump’s ‘trade tsunami’ unsettles geopolitics

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Visiting Beijing at the height of US President Donald Trump's “Liberation Day” trade war rhetoric in April, Kenyan President William Ruto described a “broken global order”. He declared Kenya would work with China to build a “fair, inclusive and sustainable world order”. At the time it looked like a particularly brazen example of a developing nation that traded heavily on its ties with the US, and had become the only declared “major non-Nato ally” of Washington on the African continent in 2024 largely as a result of its declared support for Ukraine. Kenya faces a review in the US Senate of whether it deserves to retain the position given its ties with Iran and China in particular. With Kenyan newspapers reporting an imminent trade deal with Beijing with zero apparent trade barriers, as Trump imposes 10% tariffs...
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