How Much the National Debt Grew Under Trump and Biden

How Much the National Debt Grew Under Trump and Biden

The debt has been increasing for decades, but much of the current total has been accumulated over the past ten years, during the administrations of President Donald Trump and former President Joe Biden. Here’s how much the debt grew under each of their terms in the White House. Trump’s first term When Trump took office…

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How Lilly Pulitzer Outlasted the Preppy Cliché

How Lilly Pulitzer Outlasted the Preppy Cliché

Lilly Pulitzer in her first Palm Beach shop, circa 1964. Lilly Pulitzer There was a time, not so long ago, when Lilly Pulitzer evoked images of sorority girls at Southern colleges wearing pearls and twinsets. Though the heiress behind the eponymous brand was a noted iconoclast, it seemed her legacy, at least over the past…

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What 72,000 Bodies at a Fence Revealed about Africa and Europe

What 72,000 Bodies at a Fence Revealed about Africa and Europe

Spain has already constructed a 1,600-foot floating barrier along the sea border following the Ceuta crossings. In the past decade, tens of thousands of migrants have died in Mediterranean crossings alone. But as Hein de Haas, a sociologist of migration, has explained, restrictive immigration policies fail to stop migration as there is a structural demand…

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Preppy Style, All Grown Up: The 17 Pieces That Still Work

Preppy Style, All Grown Up: The 17 Pieces That Still Work

Prep is the only American dress code that arrives with extracurriculars and a recommendation letter. Yet for all its American self-confidence, most of the kit arrived from overseas. Button-down collars came from English polo and striped jerseys from British rugby. Repp ties carried regimental stripes. The slip-on shoe arrived by way of Norway. On early-20th-century…

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If Kathy Hochul really cares about affordability, she’ll do this

If Kathy Hochul really cares about affordability, she’ll do this

Gov. Kathy Hochul has centered her reelection campaign on talk about “affordability,” but if she means it, let her prove it — by OK’ing the Constitution Pipeline project pronto. A new independent study by Daymark Energy Advisors finds that the 125-mile natural-gas line, to run from Pennsylvania to Schoharie County, could save the Northeast as…

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