‘These accounts clearly are designed as a capitalist alternative’

‘“Trump Accounts” give babies a boost — but do nothing to help parents with today’s costs’

Parents “have another option in the form of the newly created so-called Trump Accounts,” which allows a “$1,000 taxpayer-funded deposit for every child born in 2025 through 2028,” says the Chicago Tribune editorial board. But “Trump Accounts will do nothing to address the real affordability crisis plaguing American families.” A “$1,000 ‘thank you’ from the government for procreating, accessible 18 years down the line, doesn’t put food on the table now or purchase clothes for ever-growing kids.”

‘The ever-present panic about America’s schools’

The “recent war over the use of critical race theory in schools was really about whether teachers were imposing a radical and harmful curriculum designed by