Democrats had their chance to make Puerto Rico a state, but all indications in actual elections, the people of the non state of PR, Guam and the others are social conservatives in the long run.

Puerto Rico is United States, a territory full of US tax payers and US citizens, it like Rhode Island is not worthy of statehood ....who is the dipshit editor of this article. If the simple stuff gets past the editor, the entire publication should be burnt to the ground.

I really do not understand the coastal elites and the boarder states that ignore work status. Free education promises that are not real because of the student loan program, for some reason full time students dont belive they might need to spend 15 to 30 hours at a part time job. Insist on High min wage for jobs everyone can do, that should be staffed by students and people still living at home between 14 and 23, but become dead end jobs for people who support a family.

Pay illegal immigrants far below the min wage for the "untouchable" jobs, Nanny, Gardener, the less than automated parts of food production. The jobs in construction that are 25/hr when citizenship is required are 15/hr because any illegal is considered ok in CA, TX and FL.

14 to 23 year olds who want to work inside, take 10 to 15 dollars per hour. 14 to 23 year old who want to work outside take 12 to 25 dollar per hour job in farming. Perhaps learn some skills, deal with the well off, figure out how to talk to well off for jobs with more responsibility, so at 25 one can start a household.

There is no "zero sneaky" in the world anymore. Every barrier is just another challenge to be overcome. If collecting near a trillion dollars per year in tarrifs makes ones soul feel better I think we can go ahead. But every one of our peers economically have the same system in place, we just sort of skipped it because we were the sole nation to be in great shape post WWII. Every nation has had their chance to rebuild from WWII, now we treat the peers the same way we are treated and its peal clutching time.

Where did you get that, the history of the steel industry in the past 50 years gives you a good indication why tarrif policy needs to be rapid and responding to the current situation. Republicans and Democrats want to keep steel production on shore, would be nice if it were US stock market companies, but they have keep US steel production on shore with tariffs.

Accuracy and Precision is not a skill taught to journalists, that was in first year of Chemistry or engineering for those of us on the STEM. They seem to want flowing prose and catchy headlines not related to the conclusions of the article. The hapless two side of almost any issue in an article, break down when one side is a professional at deception. I expect AI is very high on Precision with Accuracy all about the training model. For 99.995% of all queries I do not believe it matters, very much like looking up something on a wiki that drives the word based LLMs. Good enough for the freezing point of sea water without consideration of wind or wave, or the capitol of the roman empire in 53BC. Not good enough for motivations of x personality in real time.

The change was detectable result, any result is considered a victory in state and city government, there is no failure, or ROI measures in uni-party government. There have been a lot of toll bridges and toll roads that doubled tolls and saw no datable change in usage, because there still are x number of people who need to do the trip for any reason, and the overall journey is long enough people are not going over the bridge 3 times a day at 16 or 36 dollars per round.

Unmanned commercial space programs were alot of using cold war surplus and DOD standard launch platforms at 90,000USD/kg, when spacex grew from not prime delivery to LEO, to a very well scheduled and very flexible way to get a generic satellite to a orbit only limited by ones budget and last stage diameter. While not 9,0000USD/kg but on a path that may be the price for the last 33KG of a microsat program.

Land area of Palestine is a land area you can revise all plus 200% and shrink 80%, and continue to lean on some historian. 1/3 of Luxemburg.

The real problem is the over investment in real estate by well off insurance customers. Seems an unnamed generation is retiring to owning to much property outside a corporation, and when they get weather damaged properties repaired they are investing more money past the insurance claims. They are tearing down concrete block houses of the 1960s at the beach and replacing them with square miles of outdoor finished area right up the edge of the attractive waterway. Where in the past storm damage was some windows and large rocks for the break wall, its 300k in outdoor patio repair. It use to be only 500 feet of the beach was overly luxo low maintenance SFH now it runs 5 miles inland. All that needs to be accurately insured for replacement value, the insurance companies would be fine if they knew what they were insuring.

Cost cutting in rail roads means the tax treatment for contract labor is cheaper than employed labor, it happening in energy also. A ton of people get a layoff notice and a numbered company is recruiting them the next week with fewer perks. The trains must run, the cars must be picked up, the overall demand for railroad standard shipping containers moves, mounts and deliveries has increased because of tariff uncertainty. All the computing power in the universe has already been put towards making logistics more effacement, there is no fix. Every mile freight is moved needs x amount of care and feeding of the transport.

Cuban Cigars, Drugs, Maple Syrup, Butter, and sometimes but rarely Chinese electronics.

How many SSL or DNS items have expired at a multinational because nobody could expense a sub $500 dollar purchase.

A generic drug manufacture can attempt to replicate the formulation and sell with a very quick approval process, they can QuickStart the process by hiring someone adjacent to the original drug with an expired NDA to explain the cheapest manufacturing technique if it was not already published. Canada and the US do not spend a lot of time investigating if a post patent pharma is any better or worse than the original formulation, its cheap for 3 organic chemists to give a nod and move on.

I remember when sneaking large amounts of Binary Data INTO China was a threat to the Communist Party.