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Donald Trump has grown increasingly fixated on tariffs, which he seems to think, contrary to the consensus among economists, are borne by foreigners. Trump understands at some level…
Read more Trump Delivers Historically Illiterate Lecture on TariffsThis post originally appeared in Jonathan Chait’s &c. newsletter, which you can sign up for here. This week, more than 100 Republican elected officials or national security advisers endorsed Kamala Harris.…
Read more The Case For 2024 Indecision Is FeebleAfter Donald Trump’s surprising win in 2016, the Democratic Party was panicked into abandoning the Obama model as a failure. Earlier this month, I examined Kamala Harris’s political…
Read more Kamala Harris Understood the AssignmentOver the weekend, Donald Trump expressed in a speech his belief that public criticism of judges and Supreme Court justices who rule in Trump’s favor should be illegal.…
Read more Trump Proposes Making It a Crime to Criticize Pro-Trump JudgesAfter absorbing the initial waves of shock from Thursday night’s debate debacle, allies of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have begun whispering to the media their reasons why…
Read more Biden and Harris’s Absurd Case for Complacency[What is this series?] Few political phenomena are more overdetermined than J.D. Vance’s endorsement of Donald Trump’s coup attempt. Vance has carried off a cynical but highly successful…
Read more The Insurrationalizers: J.D. Vance Supports ‘America’s Hitler’Hunter Biden’s conviction in Delaware over a minor charge is significant mainly because it blows to smithereens the arguments Republicans have made on behalf of Donald Trump. There’s…
Read more Hunter Biden Conviction Blows Up Republican Conspiracy TheoriesDonald Trump has almost single-handedly held up additional American aid to Ukraine, allowing Russia to regain momentum in its offensive. (It’s almost as if denying Kyiv weapons does…
Read more What Is Donald Trump’s Stance on Seizing Russian Assets?After Donald Trump’s failed coup attempt, many Establishment Republicans promised never to support him again. One of them, Eric Levine, reiterated this vow repeatedly. Last month, appearing on…
Read more Republican Billionaires No Longer Upset About InsurrectionDonald Trump has despised NATO since the 1980s, and when he was president, his aides believed he wanted to pull the United States out of the alliance completely. At a…
Read more Trump Says He’d ‘Encourage’ Russia to Attack NATO Allies Who Don’t Pay UpThis week, the United Auto Workers endorsed President Biden’s re-election. Biden has vigorously supported unions, both through direct policy actions, like appointing labor supporters to the National Labor…
Read more Grad Students Furious United Auto Workers Endorses Biden
