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washingtonmonthly. com > 06/22/2026 > trump-rural-broadband-musk-starlink-spacex

How Trump Screwed Rural Americans to Help Musk Become a Trillionaire

2+ hour, 17+ min ago  (21+ words) Trump's rewrite of rural broadband rules helped Musk steer public money toward Starlink to strengthen Space X and screw rural Americans....

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washingtonmonthly. com > 11/02/2025 > how-to-crush-the-american-battery-boom

How to Crush the American Battery Boom

7+ mon, 2+ week ago  (752+ words) America's clean energy transition cannot be stopped, but it can be slowed. Trump and the Republicans have decided to do just that'even if it means fewer jobs, higher prices, and more energy dependence. The industrial policies passed under Biden ushered…...

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Washington Monthly
washingtonmonthly. com > 07/31/2025 > hate-speech

Henry Ford vs. Elon Musk: A Century of Hate Speech

10+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1300+ words) Stop me if you've heard this one before: Guy gets insanely rich selling cars, jumps into politics, buys his own media company, then uses it to spread hate speech around the globe. That's Elon Musk, of course. It sure feels…...

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washingtonmonthly. com > 07/22/2025 > trump-is-destroying-the-american-battery-industry

How Trump's Policies Crush the American Battery Boom

10+ mon, 4+ week ago  (836+ words) The contradictions in Trump's "America First" strategy are hard to miss: the White House pushes policies to streamline critical minerals production while dismantling the very industries that need such minerals; it taxes essential imports without supporting domestic replacements; and it…...