Image Credit: AI-generated illustration By Lily Lederman | The Now Daily My neighbor was telling me recently about how she’d started shopping at three different grocery stores on the same day to get the best prices across categories — produce at one place, staples at another, meat at a third. She spent an extra hour […]
Image Credit: AI-generated illustration By Lily Lederman | The Now Daily The headline said inflation was cooling. The graph showed the curve bending downward. Economists appeared on television looking cautiously optimistic. And then you went to the grocery store and spent $140 on things that used to cost $90, and you thought — what exactly […]
Image Credit: AI-generated illustration By Lily Lederman | The Now Daily Schoolhouse Rock made it look like a reasonably orderly process. A bill has an idea, gets written down, goes to committee, gets debated, passes both chambers, and becomes a law. Clean, logical, followable. Anyone who has spent time watching the actual legislative process will […]
Image Credit: AI-generated illustration By Lily Lederman | The Now Daily I’ll be honest about something: I didn’t pay attention to local elections for most of my adult life. I voted in presidential years, sometimes in midterms if I remembered, and basically never in the off-year stuff — school board elections, city council races, special […]
Image Credit: AI-generated illustration By Lily Lederman | The Now Daily I’ll be honest about something: I didn’t pay attention to local elections for most of my adult life. I voted in presidential years, sometimes in midterms if I remembered, and basically never in the off-year stuff — school board elections, city council races, special […]
Image Credit: AI-generated illustration By Lily Lederman | The Now Daily Immigration is possibly the topic where American political conversation has the widest gap between the heat generated and the light produced. Everyone has strong feelings. Very few people have a clear picture of what’s actually happening in policy terms. That gap is worth trying […]