Podcast: Who stole the American dream?

The Fulcrum strives to approach news stories with an open mind and a spirit of inquiry, presenting our readers with a broad spectrum of viewpoints through diligent research and critical thinking. As best we can, remove personal bias from our reporting and seek a variety of perspectives in both our newsgathering and the selection of opinion pieces. However, before our readers can analyze varying viewpoints, they must have the facts.

In March of 2025, I wrote a column for The Fulcrum, Just the Facts: Canadian Tariffs, that set out to do something simple: strip away the rhetoric and explain, plainly, what tariffs between the United States and Canada actually were, what each country imposed, and why. That piece went on to become the most‑read article in Fulcrum history — more than 300,000 readers — because people were hungry for clarity in a debate that had become clouded by politics, slogans, and selective memory.