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Opinion  |  Sid Salter  • 
May 31, 2023

Debt ceiling drama, campaign rhetoric ignores the truth of federal spending in Mississippi

Raising the debt ceiling won’t change the fiscal realities of Social Security or Medicare, but it will protect the standing of the U.S. economy in global markets. And it will continue the mammoth federal subsidies to which the state has long been dependent.
Opinion  |  Matthew Becker  • 
May 30, 2023

Incrementalism will neither defeat Russia nor deter China

Thus far, we have told the Ukrainians not to bring the war home to the Russians. It is high time President Biden and Congress change their tune.