Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Reading archive 2025-07-02

The State of American Manufacturing, According to 10 Companies: What’s the reality like for U.S. brands making blankets, furniture, cookware and watches? We asked them.

The 100 Best American-Made Products: Celebrating the gear, clothes and goods that are the life's work of our fellow Americans

The Republican shell game on tax cuts: Expiring tax cuts are yesterday’s news for deficit scorekeepers, but an exciting new policy in campaign pitches.

This pandemic holdover is ruining historic Georgetown: Georgetown’s historic streets are littered with old, plastic sidewalk extenders. It needs a permanent fix. [ed. note: car-worshipping psychopath appeals to Trump to "fix" it]

FBI supervisor hired prostitutes while on assignment, watchdog says: An FBI special agent had sex with prostitutes during assignments and used an agency-issued device to pay for the encounters, a watchdog reported.

D.C. is hiking Capital Bikeshare prices. Some will pay triple.: Officials say it’s necessary to keep up with demand, particularly for higher-maintenance electric bikes.

Trump administration keeps FBI headquarters in D.C., upending planned move: The agency’s new headquarters, which had been slated to move to Maryland, will be inside the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, the former home to USAID.

Biden’s climate law boosted red states. Their lawmakers are now gutting it.: The former president bet that the economic benefits of his policies would protect them over time. Trump and the GOP-controlled Congress have upended that wager.

What an 8-mile stretch of dirt road says about the meaning of America’s public lands: A controversy in Utah over where off-road vehicles can drive has reached the White House. - "The dispute over off-road vehicles is steeped in years of litigation, and technicalities about vehicle types and road classes and decibel thresholds. But it also boils down to conflicting visions about whether wild landscapes are more a playground to be enjoyed or a treasure to be preserved."

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