Rob Horowitz (@robhorowitz)

The Iran Gamble - Rob Horowitz In 1981, then Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker famously called President Reagan’s proposal for a 25% cut in the income tax a “riverboat gamble.” …

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03.03.2026 16:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The U.S. Supreme Court Does Its Job - Rob Horowitz The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday put significant limits on President Trump’s tariff madness. In a completely foreseeable 6-3 decision--one that in…

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24.02.2026 15:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

GoLocalProv | Politics | On Energy, Trump’s Partying Like it’s 1959 - Rob Horowitz The Trump EPA’s repeal of the scientifically sound endangerment finding, underpinning much of the federal government’s executive authority to take on climate change, is only the most recent action in ...

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17.02.2026 17:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

GoLocalProv | Politics | Trump Trots Out His Big Lie Playbook in Advance of Midterms - Horowitz Sensing there was a very good chance he was going to lose the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump began calling the use of mail ballots fraudulent without supplying any evidence and arguing the e...

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10.02.2026 14:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

GoLocalProv | Politics | Wikipedia Turns 25 - Rob Horowitz In many ways, the internet age has failed to deliver on the idealistic vision of its founders and early adherents. In fact, the polarizing and isolating effects of social media and hours spent online ...

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03.02.2026 12:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

GoLocalProv | Politics | In Trump 2.0, An Administration-Wide Embrace of Alternative Facts on Full Display When media outlets noted the relatively sparse attendance at his first inauguration in 2017, a frustrated President Trump ordered his press secretary, Sean Spicer, to berate the assembled reporters an...

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27.01.2026 15:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

GoLocalProv | Politics | Flooding Minneapolis with ICE Agents Backfires - Rob Horowitz The Trump administration’s ill-advised decision to send 3,000 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to Minneapolis, a mid-size city of 450,000 people, is backfiring spectacularly, driv...

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20.01.2026 14:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

GoLocalProv | Sports | The Absurd Greenland Preoccupation - Horowitz President Trump is taking his persistent and nearly inexplicable obsession with Greenland to a new level, repeatedly refusing to take the use of military force off the table and reportedly ordering th...

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13.01.2026 15:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

GoLocalProv | Politics | January 6th Casts a Shadow Over Our Actions in Venezuela - Horowitz Today marks the five-year anniversary of an unprecedented and violent attempt to block the peaceful transfer of power, incited by a president who was using the bully pulpit to repeatedly and falsely c...

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06.01.2026 12:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

GoLocalProv | Politics | 5 Reasons for New Year’s Optimism in 2026 - Rob Horowitz For the past 13 years, I’ve written a New Year’s column listing reasons for optimism.

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30.12.2025 14:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

GoLocalProv | News | Trump Doubles Down on Racially Tinged Nativism — Horowitz In the wake of declining overall job approval and declining support for his immigration policies, President Trump is once again going to the racial well, making explicit his blood, soil and white iden...

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23.12.2025 15:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

GoLocalProv | Politics | A Mass Shooting Comes to My Neighborhood - Rob Horowitz The names of the schools are etched in our memories: Sandy Hook Elementary School, Columbine High School, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Robb Elementary School, Utah Valley University, Virginia...

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16.12.2025 14:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

GoLocalProv | Politics | Middle-aged and Older Americans Are Becoming Lonelier - Rob Horowitz Our epidemic of ‘loneliness and isolation,” brought to public attention by former US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, shows no signs of abating and is not limited to our youth. In fact, a new national su...

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09.12.2025 13:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

GoLocalProv | Politics | Hegseth v. Kelly: It’s Not a Close Call - Rob Horowitz Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth raising the prospect of calling Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) back to active service to court-martial him and ordering an investigation toward that end, all over his part...

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02.12.2025 13:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

GoLocalProv | Politics | RFK Jr. Steps Up His Dangerous Anti-Vaccine Efforts - Rob Horowitz Going back on a solemn commitment he made to Senator Bill Cassidy, chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, to secure his confirmation vote, Robert. F. Kennedy Jr. personal...

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25.11.2025 15:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

GoLocalProv | Politics | As Trump Abandons the Climate, China Steps Into the Void - Horowitz The Trump administration’s glaring absence from the UN annual international climate summit, currently underway in Brazil, puts an exclamation point on its abandonment of any global leadership on clima...

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18.11.2025 14:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

GoLocalProv | Politics | Off-Year Election Results Should Be a Wake-Up Call for White House - Horowitz Voters in high-profile governors’ races in New Jersey and Virginia, as well as in lower-profile contests throughout the nation, expressed their strong disapproval of President Trump’s job performance,...

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11.11.2025 20:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

GoLocalProv | Politics | Americans Still Believe Ideas, Not Blood and Soil, Define Our Nation Despite President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance’s efforts to advance a crabbed blood and soil vision of our nation -- where how long your family roots go back in our nation’s history or w...

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04.11.2025 13:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

GoLocalProv | Politics | Podcasts Are an Expanding Source of News - Rob Horowitz About 1-in-3 Americans (32%) “say they get news from podcasts at least sometimes,” nearly a 50% increase over the past 5 years, according to the Pew Research Center. Now more available in video format...

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28.10.2025 12:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

GoLocalProv | Politics | No Kings Strikes a Responsive Chord - Rob Horowitz Nearly 7 million people all across our nation, including more than 20,000 right here in Providence, peacefully protested the authoritarian actions of the Trump administration on Saturday, participatin...

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21.10.2025 14:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

GoLocalProv | Politics | Trump Orders Up the Prosecutions of Political Opponents - Horowitz Richard Nixon famously compiled an enemies list. But in large measure due to the IRS and Justice Department’s refusal to comply with his directives, those on it mainly escaped any serious consequences...

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14.10.2025 14:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

GoLocalProv | Politics | A Win-Win Path Out of the Shutdown - Rob Horowitz As we move into the second week of the federal government shutdown, we are nearing the missed paychecks for federal workers and members of the military — which, among other real-world consequences, us...

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07.10.2025 13:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

GoLocalProv | Politics | Trump’s Authoritarianism is on Full Display - Horowitz For those observers who believed warnings that a Trump second term would pose a serious threat to our democracy were overblown, the past few weeks should have been eye-opening. At this point, it takes...

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23.09.2025 13:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

GoLocalProv | Politics | We Face an Escalating Cycle of Political Violence - Horowitz The senseless killing of Charlie Kirk last week, struck down by an assassin’s bullet while he was answering questions from a college audience at an event organized by Turning Point, the youth-oriented...

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16.09.2025 15:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

GoLocalProv | Politics | Trump’s Rewriting of American History Extends to Our National Parks - Horowitz Taking a page directly out of the well-worn playbook of Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban and other authoritarians, President Trump continues his quest to control our nation’s cultural and educat...

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09.09.2025 11:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

GoLocalProv | Politics | RFK Jr.‘s Anti-Vaccine Agenda Jeopardizes Our Health In his seminal 2017 book, “The Death of Expertise,” Tom Nichols aptly described the societal trends that created the political opening for someone like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ascend to a top governm...

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02.09.2025 14:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

GoLocalProv | Politics | Trump EPA Abandons the Climate - Rob Horowitz Continuing its deliberate sabotage of any effort to limit climate change, the Trump administration is seeking to do away with a long-standing Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finding determining ...

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26.08.2025 14:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

GoLocalProv | Politics | Heavy-Handed Theatrics Are No Substitute for Effective Crime-Fighting - Horowitz If President Trump were serious about reducing crime in Washington, D.C, he would have worked cooperatively with Mayor Bowser and the city’s highly regarded police chief, Pamela Smith, to develop a co...

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19.08.2025 13:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

GoLocalProv | Politics | Trump Shoots the Messenger - Rob Horowitz The phrase “don’t shoot the messenger” stems from the times before modern communication, when bad news was delivered to rulers in person. From time to time, angry monarchs took out their disappointmen...

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05.08.2025 11:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

GoLocalProv | Smearing Obama Won’t Make Epstein Go Away

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29.07.2025 12:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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