Will Bunch
Writer at Freelance
National Columnist at The Philadelphia Inquirer
National opinion columnist, Philadelphia Inquirer. New book AFTER THE IVORY TOWER FALLS (out now!) https://t.co/KaIAvvlnc5. Free weekly newsletter: https://t.co/8g2FAYQDEV
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1 week ago |
inquirer.com | Will Bunch
It’s April 15, and I have to say I can’t remember a year when there’s been as little hype about the arrival of America’s tax deadline day. Maybe because the massive everyday tax hike that Donald Trump has dictatorially imposed on the nation with his irrational tariffs is a bigger story? Or is it just that — with daily stories about masked men snatching college students and an American gulag rising up in El Salvador — people don’t want to think about where our tax dollars are going?
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1 week ago |
inquirer.com | Will Bunch
In a just and decent America, the law enforcement career of Charles Cross Jr. would have ended more than a decade ago. A Milwaukee police sergeant, Cross was briefly fired from the force in 2007 after kicking down his girlfriend’s door and convicted of misdemeanor property damage, but top brass gave him a second chance after he underwent treatment for alcoholism and depression. This did not go well.
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1 week ago |
commondreams.org | Will Bunch
It was the great Kris Kristofferson, whom we just lost last fall, who wrote that “freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.” Is that what Trump meant by his “Liberation Day” of tariffs last week, which liberated America’s 401K investors of billions of dollars? At least millions of citizens felt the freedom to take to the streets over theweekend with their grievances, which should give all of us hope.
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2 weeks ago |
inquirer.com | Will Bunch
The notion of Donald Trump — who lived most of his adult life in a gilded penthouse above Fifth Avenue and thinks that he invented the word “groceries” — as the voice for everyday “forgotten Americans” has always felt strained. But in one key sense, the 45th and 47th president was way out in front of the regular folks who elected him. The man has rarely, if ever, cracked open a book in his life.
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2 weeks ago |
inquirer.com | Will Bunch
It was the great Kris Kristofferson, whom we just lost last fall, who wrote that “freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.” Is that what Trump meant by his “Liberation Day” of tariffs last week, which liberated America’s 401K investors of billions of dollars? At least millions of citizens felt the freedom to take to the streets over theweekend with their grievances, which should give all of us hope. If someone forwarded you this email, sign up for free here.
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Here's a real "national emergency": College kids won't, and often can't, read a book from cover to cover. This rise of "functional illiteracy" in the iPhone Age is happening right when our imploding democracy needs critical thinkers My new column https://t.co/XjaT96Gb1w
