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More than 8.3 million people in Mexico were pulled out of poverty between 2022 and 2024, according to a report released by Mexico’s statistics agency on Wednesday.
It marks a nearly 18% drop in people living in poverty in a country that has long struggled with high levels of economic precarity and unemployment. The number of people living in extreme poverty dropped 23% while those in moderate poverty dropped more than 16%, according to the report by Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI). Today, one in three Mexicans still live in poverty. https://apnews.com/article/poverty-mexico-president-andres-manuel-lopez-obrador-social-welfare-c7ec7f184ce8163e84fffa1b9f47aed8
Trump’s critics see his takeover of the Kennedy Center and his efforts to destroy progressive values in the arts, the universities and elsewhere as cultural warfare.
He pretty much agrees, proclaiming that he’d scrubbed his list for “wokesters.” He admitted he’d even considered using his newly seized power over the citadel of American cultural life to honor himself.
No wonder critics — including, no doubt, many liberal Kennedy Center subscribers, given the capital region’s progressive lean — perceive a would-be authoritarian who wants to dominate and dictate every aspect of American life.
Presidents don’t generally select honorees. You’d think the world’s most powerful man would have bigger fish to fry. Most commanders in chief just throw a White House reception and turn up for the show.
But Trump is a ravenous consumer of pop culture and is unusually skilled at leveraging it for political gain. He’s the executive producer of his own life and political career. So there was no chance he’d pass up a chance to stage-manage this show — and even plans to host the televised gala himself. He professed to have been press-ganged into it by White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. She probably didn’t have to twist his arm for too long.
Trump’s base voters, and many other conservatives, believe that liberal elites spent decades cementing an ideological takeover of multiple areas of US life — in the arts, the media, academia, and even in sports — and dragged them to the left.
The anger of millions of Americans about this pulsated from Trump’s rallies in three consecutive campaigns. Voters gravitated toward a candidate who was mocked for his brassy ways by sophisticated Manhattanites. This is why Hillary Clinton’s ill-judged insult of Trump supporters in 2016 as “deplorables” became a badge of honor and a source of power for the president.
When Trump’s critics bemoan what they see as a takeover of top political and cultural institutions, his fans think he’s taking those entities back. https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/14/politics/trump-kennedy-center-strait-stallone-gaynor-kiss-analysis
Trump has routinely spread misinformation since the start of his political career, but his efforts in his second term to bend data to support his agenda have invited comparisons to information control in autocratic countries. https://s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?trackId=598b051fae7e8a68162a1429&s=689e3ef1f8c34f50ed0e9378&utm_campaign=wp_the_5_minute_fix&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&linknum=5&linktot=55
Trump’s false or misleading claims total 30,573 over 4 years. January 24, 2021 — More than
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