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Niall Ferguson: A User’s Guide to Wrecking the Global Financial System
Ordinary Americans elected Trump because they expected him to make things better. Did they realize they were getting a reactionary economic project?
Niall Ferguson
Both Left and Right Are Wrong About Mahmoud Khalil
Anyone who says the law is obvious here is not telling the truth.
Jed Rubenfeld
Trump to Wall Street: Brace for Impact
President Trump has drawn the ire of Democrats, Ukrainians, and college presidents. Wall Street assumed the president would have their back. Not so…
Peter Coy
Michael Lind: Why Tariffs Are Good
The claim that tariffs are inherently misguided and inevitably harmful does not stand up to scrutiny.
Michael Lind
Erick Erickson: MAGA’s Tariff Talking Points Are Bound to Backfire
Republicans risk repeating Democrats’ mistake—forgetting it’s the economy, stupid.
Erick Erickson
The ICE Detention of a Columbia Student Is Just the Beginning
A White House official says that Mahmoud Khalil posed a ‘threat to the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States.’ And that…
Gabe Kaminsky, Madeleine Rowley, and Maya Sulkin
Is Trump’s Mineral Deal Unprecedented? Not Exactly.
For lessons on the president’s offer to Ukraine, look back at FDR.
Ed Conway
Jailed. Pardoned. Now Rod Blagojevich Wants to Be a ‘Trumpocrat’
With a presidential pardon in the bag, the disgraced ex-governor may be eyeing a run for mayor of Chicago. ‘I’m at the stage of my life that’s a new…
Olivia Reingold
How Trump Loosened the Rules for Hunting Terrorists
‘We undid four years of insanity,’ counterterrorism director Sebastian Gorka tells The Free Press.
Eli Lake
Cliff Asness: The New ‘Crypto Fort Knox’ Is as Dumb as It Sounds
To create a sovereign wealth fund dedicated to something five times or more as volatile as straight-up stocks is an awful idea.
Cliff Asness
Douglas Murray: How MAGA Lost Its Way on Ukraine
Ukraine is not just a country that the Trumpian right has never visited. It is a fantasy country that they imagine they know everything about.
Douglas Murray
EXCLUSIVE: The EPA Demands an Accounting of the $20 Billion Climate Fund
‘If you ask me where all this money is going,’ says EPA head Lee Zeldin, ‘I actually don’t know.’
Madeleine Rowley
DOGE Cut Off Funds to NED. Now They’re Suing.
The National Endowment for Democracy says the executive branch has no authority to stop their funding.
Eli Lake
Will NIH Cuts Boost Public Health—or Destroy It?
Two cancer doctors debate whether Trump’s slashing of billions to the National Institutes for Health are efficient or could endanger people's lives.
David Andorsky and Vinay Prasad
Truth Mattered in the Cold War. And It Matters Now in Ukraine.
Honorable men went to the gulag for refusing to repeat the Kremlin’s lies. Now an American president is echoing them for free.
Eli Lake
Larry Summers Thinks Trump’s Tariffs Are a Disaster
The former Treasury secretary says: ‘I have never seen as irrational a consequential policy put in place by an American administration.’
Oliver Wiseman
Victor Davis Hanson: Can Trump Revolutionize America?
Change is underway—at the border, in our federal government, and abroad. But several forces threaten to undermine success.
Victor Davis Hanson
Trump to Columbia: Fix Campus Antisemitism or Lose $5 Billion in Federal Funds
Fed probe ‘is as serious as can be,’ says task force member. ‘I have the Department of Education guys texting me every day asking when they can start…
Maya Sulkin
LISTEN: The Best Reality TV Is Actually in the Oval Office
It’s been four days since the diplomatic earthquake went down in the Oval Office between President Donald Trump, Vice President J.D.
Bari Weiss
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Christopher Caldwell: Zelensky’s Trumpian Trick
People who like Zelensky dislike Trump. They seem not to have noticed that the Ukrainian leader is the most Trump-like politician in the world.
Christopher Caldwell
What Average Americans Think of Trump’s Showdown with Zelensky
Most ordinary voters weren’t horrified by the president’s treatment of an ally. In fact, they agreed with it.
Batya Ungar-Sargon
Victor Davis Hanson: Ten Reasons for the Zelensky-Trump Blowup
What comes next for relations between the United States and Ukraine?
Victor Davis Hanson
Make Actors Apolitical Again
Once upon a time in Hollywood, Oscar winners were booed for making their acceptance speeches political. It was a golden age.
Kat Rosenfield
A Fiasco in the Oval Office
The dressing-down of a besieged ally might be ‘great television.’ But it’s terrible for the United States.
Eli Lake
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