October 2, 2026 -

Forty-Two Billion Dollars, and Rural America Got a Satellite Dish

Congress set aside $42.45 billion to wire every unserved home in the country with lasting, high-speed internet. Then the Trump administration rewrote the rules in ways that favored the satellite company of its biggest donor, sat on half the money for more than a year, and tried to use the rest as leverage over the states.

The World’s Breadbasket Now Buys More Food Than It Sells, and the Farmer Is Paying the Bill

For half a century American agriculture ran a trade surplus the rest of the economy envied. Now the country imports more food than it exports, family farms are filing for bankruptcy at a pace not seen since before the pandemic, and the White House is spending its energy on everything but the people who feed the nation.

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