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    There’s Nothing More Patriotic Than Dissent. Don’t Let Anyone Tell You Otherwise

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  • Prof. Eddie Glaude praises ‘No Kings’ protests: ‘We are the salvation this country needs’

    05:44
  • ‘Joyous’ No Kings protests was a ‘spectacular way to push back against would-be autocrats’

    10:41
  • How Trump uses public displays of propaganda to wield power

    10:11
  • Sounding the Alarm: Supreme Court hears case to gut the Voting Rights Act

    11:37
  • Kasparov’s warning: All signs indicate Trump will not give up power voluntarily

    06:45
  • ‘An unhinged disgrace’: Hakeem Jeffries fires back at WH Press Secretary

    07:55
  • Velshi: This is how single, small acts of courage become many, and many become unstoppable

    05:05
  • Newsrooms send a united message to Hegseth: We won’t be censored

    11:43
  • ICE ramps up its aggressive tactics, and brutality is the point

    11:15
  • Velshi Banned Book Club: “Feed” by M.T. Anderson

    11:50
  • ‘A coup is happening’: A new warning against Trump’s authoritarian slide

    09:53
  • Trump’s ‘radical left’ lie is about enabling an authoritarian slide

    09:34
  • Oregon AG: ‘It’s a very dangerous time here in America’

    10:07
  • Federalism is the core principle of the U.S. government. Trump is undermining it.

    11:17
  • Rev. Al Sharpton: SCOTUS voting rights case ‘will have a ripple effect’ across the U.S.

    10:30
  • Velshi Banned Book Club: Filmmaker Alex Gibney on the frightening relevance of Orwell’s warnings

    10:05
  • Chicago mayor: ‘It’s incumbent to…push back fiercely against this tyrant’

    08:01
  • Inside the think tank speech that foretold Trump’s obsession with The Insurrection Act

    10:27
  • Caught on camera: ICE tactics intensify despite disturbing videos surfacing across the U.S.

    11:47

The Truth About Tariffs & How They Work

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One piece of Donald Trump’s economic plan is to impose sweeping tariffs on other countries, particularly China. Tariffs are neither inherently good nor inherently bad. They are a tool which, when used strategically, can remedy trade imbalances, protect certain domestic industries, or influence other countries to improve their trade, wage or human rights practices. But it’s the American companies that pay tariffs. And those companies end up passing that "tax" onto the consumer in the form of higher prices. So the American consumer ends up footing the bill for tariffs.

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