Rightwing Washington Post Editorial Board Endorses Trump’s Golden Dome

November 6, 2025
Melvin Goodman
Over the past several months, the editorial board of the Washington Post  has moved steadily to the right, endorsing greater defense budgets, the use of military force, and even making a case for the U.S. military to return to its largest air base in Afghanistan.  In a recent editorial, “How to live in our nuclear ‘House of Dynamite’,” the Post has reversed a long-standing position in order to endorse the building of the Golden Dome national missile defense. The system could take more than a decade to build and require more than $1 trillion in funding.

Defense Intelligence Agency assessment of current and future missile threats to the U.S. in 2025 – Public Domain

Trump Family Wealth Accumulation and SNAP Benefits

November 6, 2025
Dean Baker
I have harangued reporters for decades over their failure to express big numbers in a context that would make them meaningful to their audiences. For example, when they report that we will spend roughly $100 billion this year on SNAP, relatively few people know that this is around 1.4 percent of total spending. They just hear a REALLY BIG NUMBER, to most of them the number would probably mean the same thing if it would $50 billion or $200 billion.