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How FDR and Michael Jackson Built the Modern World: Digital collage featuring Franklin D. Roosevelt in grayscale beside an image of Michael Jackson, set against cracked glass textures,
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How FDR and Michael Jackson Built the Modern World (Yes, Really)

06/03/2026 We remember them without ever having met them. That is the miracle. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Michael Jackson did not shake your hand. They did not sit in your living room. And yet you know the cadence of their voices, the weight of their pauses, the way they made you feel seen across an impossible distance. This is not nostalgia. This is architecture. Most … Continue reading How FDR and Michael Jackson Built the Modern World (Yes, Really)

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The Greatest Lie Ever Told About the American Economy and Jobs: Large crowd gathered outside Federal Hall in New York City during the 1929 Wall Street crash, with people filling the steps and street as mounted police manage the scene.
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The Greatest Lie Ever Told About the American Economy and Jobs

06/16/2026 Clocking It: The Political Rundown — The Verdict Earlier this week, Halfway Clocked laid out the anatomy of a credit crisis unfolding in real time. Household debt at an all‑time high of 1.69 trillion. Student loan delinquencies spiking to 10.3 percent. And the agency designed to protect consumers from predatory lending, the CFPB, gutted by a president who ran as a populist. That was … Continue reading The Greatest Lie Ever Told About the American Economy and Jobs

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Credit Crisis: Assorted credit cards from major issuers including Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, Chase, and Citi scattered across a surface, illustrating consumer debt and financial stress.
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America’s Credit Crisis: The $18.8 Trillion Wreckage of Trump’s Economy

05/13/2026 Clocking It: The Political Rundown — Halfway Clocked If you filled up your tank in Wisconsin this week, you felt the Iran war at the pump, $6 a gallon. If you opened your credit card bill, you felt the deeper crisis: the slow, grinding suffocation of the American middle class under record debt, record interest rates, and a president who dismantled the very agency … Continue reading America’s Credit Crisis: The $18.8 Trillion Wreckage of Trump’s Economy

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21st Century War on Equal Opportunity and Black America: Historic civil rights protest with demonstrators holding signs demanding voting rights and an end to brutality, standing in front of a courthouse.
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21st Century War on Equal Opportunity and Black America

Clocking It: The Political Rundown — The Verdict Earlier this week, Halfway Clocked documented the economic pain hitting American families at the pump. Gas prices surging toward $6 in Wisconsin. The national average jumping 35 cents in a single week. And the cause was not a global pandemic or a foreign dictator’s invasion, it was Trump’s self‑inflicted war with Iran. But for Black Americans, the … Continue reading 21st Century War on Equal Opportunity and Black America

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How High Can Gas Prices Go and How Fast? Gas station price sign showing regular gasoline at 725.9 cents, plus at 745.9, and premium at 775.9, displayed on a blue board with a clear sky and trees in the background.
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How High Can Gas Prices Go and How Fast?

Clocking It: The Political Rundown — Halfway Clocked If you filled up your tank in Wisconsin this week, you felt it. Parts of the state have seen prices touching $6 per gallon. The national average surged to $4.457 on Monday, with an eye-watering 35-cent jump in just one week. Drivers in California are now paying over $6.11 per gallon. The frustration is real, the pain … Continue reading How High Can Gas Prices Go and How Fast?

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the United States is More Isolated Than Ever Before: NATO flag flying in front of the glass façade of NATO headquarters, showing the white compass rose emblem against a deep blue field.
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How the United States is More Isolated Than Ever Before

04/18/2026 Clocking It: The Political Rundown — The Verdict Earlier this week, Halfway Clocked documented a remarkable global trend: the anti‑authoritarian surge. Hungarian voters delivered a democratic earthquake, ending Viktor Orbán’s sixteen‑year strongman rule and handing Péter Magyar a constitutional supermajority. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney secured a majority government, stabilizing a minority parliament and reaffirming democratic legitimacy. The message from Budapest and Ottawa was … Continue reading How the United States is More Isolated Than Ever Before

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