The Good News About Trump’s Tariffs
Authoritarian leaders are most dangerous when they’re popular. Wrecking the economy is unlikely to broaden Trump’s support.

Authoritarian leaders are most dangerous when they’re popular. Wrecking the economy is unlikely to broaden Trump’s support.
The prospect of smashing imagined limits on his power gives him an obvious thrill.
Some of Musk’s haphazard cuts will produce tiny savings in terms of salary while forfeiting much larger ones down the road, costing the government money.
The response to Signalgate reveals a disjuncture between the seriousness with which MAGA treats foreign enemies and perceived domestic ones.
Liberals are recognizing they made mistakes. Conservatives are making fun of them for that.
It’s the Trump administration, not Columbia, that has done nothing to confront anti-Semitism in its own ranks.
The president’s latest positions on the Russia-Ukraine war reveal that he is indifferent to ongoing slaughter—indeed, he is willing to increase it.
The new FBI deputy director has written that his own agency perpetrated “the greatest scandal in American political history.”
The president’s defenders ignore one possibility: He just likes Putin.
He simply likes Vladimir Putin better.