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Mary Collins: An idea for a political cartoon

Greenfield Recorder 07 Apr 2025
Picture a state. Any state. Now picture the state having endured a weather disaster. A tornado, flooding, fires, earthquake. Now picture the state asking for federal assistance in the tone of Ben Stein from Ferris Bueller. FEMA? FEMA? FEMA? Anyone? ... .
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Hands Off protest in downtown Chicago draws thousands criticizing Trump's policies

Chicago Sun-Times 05 Apr 2025
Alice Brandon has been crying a lot lately ... Organizers said more than 30,000 people marched Saturday to rally against Trump and billionaire CEO Elon Musk ... Will tariffs work? Watch Ben Stein explain in iconic Chicago movieFerris Bueller’s Day Off’ ... AP.
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Will tariffs work? Watch Ben Stein explain in iconic Chicago movie 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off'

Chicago Sun-Times 04 Apr 2025
In the iconic movie shot in and around Chicago, writer, actor and economics guru Ben Stein plays a high school teacher lecturing about the Smoot-Hawley Tarriff Act of 1930, which was intended to alleviate the effects of the Great Depression.
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Why Trump's tariffs have everyone talking about this scene from 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off'

Usatoday 04 Apr 2025
Here, we’ll turn the mic over to the incomparable Ben Stein, a former Nixon speechwriter who reinvented himself as an entertainer and earned a scene-stealing role in “Ferris Bueller” as a dull-as-dirt instructor.
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Why is Trump rewriting US economic history? Anyone?

CNN 03 Apr 2025
The accepted version of history, which you might, or might not, recall from Ben Stein’s history teacher in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” is that Congress raised tariffs with the Smoot-Hawley tariff act ...
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Commentary: Trump tariffs tank stocks, 401(k)s, as investors digest economic policy shift

Usatoday 03 Apr 2025
But the one where Ben Stein plays a high school economics teacher speaking to a bored class about how the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act of 1930, also known as Smoot-Hawley, raised tariffs in an effort to collect more revenue for the U.S.
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Trump tariffs tank stocks, 401(k)s, as market digests massive shift in economic policy

Detroit Free Press 03 Apr 2025
But the one where Ben Stein plays a high school economics teacher speaking to a bored class about how the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act of 1930, also known as Smoot-Hawley, raised tariffs in an effort to collect more revenue for the U.S.
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