Tariffs, trees, and Tina Peters. John and Rachel look at why Alaska parents are paying more for school supplies, what the Trump administration’s plan to scrap the Roadless Rule could mean for the Tongass and Chugach National Forests, and why using federal dollars to pressure Colorado into freeing convicted election official Tina Peters set a worrisome precedent for a state as dependent on Washington as Alaska. Then they head to Article IV and the Constitution’s Property Clause—the remarkably short provision behind some remarkably large arguments over who gets to decide what on federal land.
