History is peppered with examples of political fortunes shifting practically overnight. You don't have to go back far. Last summer, we saw a sniper's bullet graze then candidate Trump's ear and President Biden perform disastrously during a debate. The two events, which happened in a single month, altered the 2024 election dramatically. Buried in Trump's current budget plan—which is actually titled "One Big, Beautiful Bill Act"—is a detail with the potential to once again alter the political landscape: cuts to Medicare. Not MediCAID, our political columnist Charles P. Pierce points out, but MediCARE. The bill is still in committee, so nothing is final, but in a column today Pierce explains the consequences should it happen. – Michael Sebastian, editor-in-chief Plus: |
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Add another broken promise to the presidential pile. |
The basic unfathomability of the federal budget process is such a boon to legislators who want to do mischief without leaving any fingerprints on the gun or DNA on the knife. There are so many statutes, regulations, informal rules and customs, and parliamentary bear traps that an appropriation to clean Lincoln's nose on Mount Rushmore might well also commit the federal government to build 12 nuclear aircraft carriers in a boat basin outside Yankton, South Dakota. |
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Filming a Western is a grueling experience. As American Primeval director Peter Berg recalls, production took roughly 130 days in the mountains of Sante Fe, New Mexico, through snowstorms, heat waves, and rattlesnakes. So before the 61-year-old filmmaker put a team together to shoot the Netflix limited series set in 1850s Utah, he knew he needed people that identified as outdoorsmen first, and TV crew second. The result? One of the most realistic and violent portrayals of the American West that has ever aired on screen. |
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I'm laissez-faire when it comes to what people do with their feet. Shoes off on the plane? Go for it. Toe shoes? Hell yeah man, why not. I am, however, particular about formality, respect for those around you. The second you're indoors, or at an establishment that gives more than two pieces of silverware, men's toes gotta be put away. I was fine with cheap slippers at home and a beat up pair of Vans Classics for the beach, but I really wanted to find something better. Nothing ever looked or felt like I wanted until I found these Sabah Baba mules, the answer to both scenarios. These are the only do-everything summer shoe I've ever found, truly worth their weight in gold. |
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