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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche sort of assured House members that the Justice Department is “not moving forward” with Trump’s slush fund. (Photo: PBS)
Fund and games
A grift too far? So it seemed with Donald Trump’s $1.776 bill...
Dynamic Pricing Ruined My 50-Year Bromance with Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen says he doesn’t like being “the poster boy for high ticket prices.” (Photo: Dharmabumstead)
When I heard that Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band were coming to Washington, D.C., to play at Nationals Park on May 27, I...
On the Money: Trump’s 2027 Military Budget Would Cost Each U.S. Household $11,200
Illustration: Elliott Negin/ChatGPT
Do you feel like paying $11,200 a year on the military because our demented president is suffering from paranoia? Donald Trump says we all should fork it over, and Republicans in Congress will likely agr...
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Donald Trump can’t remember the name of the Reflecting Pool and isn’t sure where it’s located, but he knows it’s going to be blue. (Photo: Truth Social)
Trump fog alert
Donald Trump sure loves to talk about his blue paint job at the...
When It’s David Versus Goliath, America is Bound to Lose
Illustration: Elliott Negin/ChatGPT (with apologies to Caravaggio)
“Americans have the watches, [but] the Taliban have the time,” former U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker said ruefully after the United States withdrew its forces from Afghanista...
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A former editor at NPR, American Journalism Review, Nuclear Times and Public CItizen magazine and contributor to HuffPost, Negin is the executive editor and cofounder of Money Trail on Substack.
Friend and fellow psychonaut.
2021 Scripps Howard winner for Excellence in Opinion writing and 2021 winner in both Social Justice & Sports commentary from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. 2021 winner in Teen Nonfiction in the Ben Franklin Awards.
former journalist in DC
Senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, dog lover, and new resident of Astoria, Oregon.
Money Trail’s senior editor, was a Center for Investigative Reporting staff member, an ABC News field producer, a Seattle Weekly news editor, and a Pacific Northwest public radio reporter. The author of two books on the environment.
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