In Which Donald Trump Displays His Powerful Knowledge of Everyday Life

In an ultra-rich-person moment at his latest forever-campaign rally in Tampa on Tuesday night, President Trump claimed you need photo ID to buy groceries in this country as part of a meandering argument for voter ID laws. Trump started by telling his crowd, where conspiracy theorists and Jim Acosta haters were unsurprisingly well represented, that…

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This Is What Life Without Retirement Savings Looks Like – The Atlantic

That means that as people reach their mid-60s, they either have to dramatically curtail their spending or keep working to survive. “This will be the first time that we have a lot of people who find themselves downwardly mobile as they grow older,” Diane Oakley, the executive director of the National Institute on Retirement Security,…

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How the Koch Brothers Are Killing Public Transit Projects Around the Country – The New York Times

Tori Venable, Tennessee state director of Americans for Prosperity, left, helping volunteers in Nashville prepare for canvassing against a mass-transit proposal. CreditWilliam DeShazer for The New York Times NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A team of political activists huddled at a Hardee’s one rainy Saturday, wolfing down a breakfast of biscuits and gravy. Then they descended on…

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