Tariffs

Thomas Massie’s predicament, as he fends off a Trump-backed challenger – and Trump himself – in the Republican primary for his seat in Congress, is symbolic of the vexed relationship libertarians have with the right these days. Massie was not only a Tea Party Republican when he was first elected in 2012, he was a Ron Paul Republican, inspired by the longtime, philosophically libertarian Texas congressman who made his second bid for the GOP presidential nomination that year. The Commonwealth of Kentucky had sent Paul’s son, Rand, to the US Senate two years before, and its 4th congressional district put Massie in the House. Libertarians are natural junior partners in

On February 24, Donald Trump will deliver the first State of the Union speech of his second term as president. That impending date goes a long way toward explaining Trump’s avidity for annexing Greenland – sooner rather than later – as the centerpiece of his program for restoring an American golden age of imperial power. Nothing would please Trump more than to be able to declare mission accomplished when he addresses Congress in February. Far from backing away from the issue, Trump, who will travel to Davos next week, is doubling down. He seems convinced that he can cow European leaders into submission, but the more he badgers them, the

If voters feel they are going backward, then the vaulting success of the stock market or the tech sector can feel like an insult

In promising an economic boom, Trump has highlighted his responsibility for inflation and unemployment

The issue before the court is whether the Economic Emergency Powers Act delegates tariff making to the president

Last night, the President abruptly announced that he was suspending trade negotiations with Canada

The President joked about the upcoming ‘US/Canada merger’

The cost of treatment for many patients will soar. Does Trump think that people will somehow fail to realize this?

The confusion of the markets is understandable. No one really knows the details of what’s coming into effect

Politics is personal. And the psychodrama is exhausting, after all