The Rev. Jesse Jackson was "a good man, with lots of personality, grit and 'street smarts,'" President Trump said of the civil rights leader who died Wednesday (per Newsweek). Jackson was 84. Jackson ran for the Democratic nomination for president in 1984 and again in 1988, when he finished second in state primaries won, after Gov. Michael Dukakis and ahead of Sen. Al Gore.

How Is Your Economy?

Stephen Macaulay makes his case, as never-Trumper pundit-at-large writing mostly for our right (conservative) column that mostly every American’s economy is costlier after a year of the Trump administration. 

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