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Trump Booed: The Death of the Fairness Doctrine and the Rise of “Two Realities” in American Media: Front entrance of the FCC building
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Trump Booed: The Death of the Fairness Doctrine and the Rise of “Two Realities” in American Media

06/09/2026 Clocking It: The Political Rundown — Halfway Clocked On a Monday night in June, Donald Trump walked into Madison Square Garden as the first sitting president in history to attend an NBA Finals game. He walked out to the sound of something he has spent a lifetime trying to outrun: the truth being witnessed by 20,000 people at once. The first sitting U.S. president … Continue reading Trump Booed: The Death of the Fairness Doctrine and the Rise of “Two Realities” in American Media

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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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Trump Devours His Own Ecosystem of Old Supporters. Screenshot of a social media post from the account “PatriotTakes” on X.com. The post claims that Tucker Carlson is selling “Low IQ” hats in response to Donald Trump’s comments about his MAGA critics. Below the text is an image showing three baseball caps—gray, red, and red‑white‑blue—each printed with the phrase “LOW IQ,” alongside a photo of Tucker Carlson wearing a brown jacket and blue shirt.
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Trump Devours His Own Ecosystem of Old Supporters

04/11/2026 Clocking It: The Political Rundown — The Verdict Two stories unfolded in America this week. One made headlines. The other should have. And as we noted in Halfway Clocked, the quiet Democratic wave across Wisconsin, Georgia, Missouri, and Oklahoma was the story the national media missed while fixating on a president tearing apart his own movement. The headline story was Donald Trump, 482 words … Continue reading Trump Devours His Own Ecosystem of Old Supporters

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Historic 19th‑century engraving of the original U.S. Capitol building, showing the early architecture used by the Founders and the first Congresses, symbolizing the constitutional design at the heart of America’s war‑powers debate.
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Transgressing the Line: Who Stops a President at War?

03/07/2026 Clocking It: The Political Rundown — The Verdict Earlier this week, Halfway Clocked examined a question as old as the Constitution itself: Can a president start a war without congressional approval? The answer lives in the space between what the Founders built and what history has bent. Article I gives Congress the power to declare war. Article II makes the president commander in chief. … Continue reading Transgressing the Line: Who Stops a President at War?

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