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Joe Biden Made More Than 600 Grants to Stop ‘Disinformation.’ Donald Trump Now Has a Plan for Them.
Top federal officials are ‘just getting started’ on a cancelling spree, write Gabe Kaminsky and Madeleine Rowley for The Free Press.
Gabe Kaminsky and Madeleine Rowley
Trump’s Iran Nuclear Deal Looks a Lot Like Obama’s
Washington has leverage over Tehran. Why won’t the administration press the advantage?
Eli Lake
China and America Agree: Apple Is Too Big to Fail
The problem with building iPhones in America isn’t that they’d be priced at $3,500 each. It’s that they wouldn’t be built at all.
Patrick McGee
Bari Weiss: My Picks of the Week
We’re publishing a lot these days. Here’s what you can’t miss. It’s a dizzy, disorienting moment. Let us help you make sense of it.
Bari Weiss
China and America Aren’t Just in a Trade War. It’s a Fight for the 21st Century.
Xi and Trump are now in a zero-sum contest for global supremacy.
Matt Pottinger and Liza Tobin
Will the U.S. Strike a Deal with Iran This Weekend?
‘By the end of May, we could either have serious talks with Iran or the possibility of military action.’
Jay Solomon
Wall Street Is Panicking. But Lloyd Blankfein Isn’t Sweating It.
“I think some of these things need to be done. I just don’t think we should risk the kind of chaos that could push us into a recession.” Lloyd Blankfein…
Bari Weiss
46M
Think Congress Will Stop Trump’s Tariffs? Think Again.
Trump’s tariff edicts are a sign of how far the United States’ political reality has strayed from its constitutional design, writes Chuck Lane.
Charles Lane
Exclusive: Trump Administration Freezes $2.7 Billion in ‘Digital Equity’ Grants
Biden-era funding is under investigation for possible race-based discrimination by the federal government.
Gabe Kaminsky
Working-Class Americans—Like My Family—Will Be Hit Hardest by Trump’s Tariffs
My hometown was wrecked by deindustrialization. These tariffs will only make things worse.
River Page
Jed Rubenfeld: Are Trump’s Tariffs Legal?
The president’s economic policies could soon be challenged in court. But do the president’s opponents have a chance?
Jed Rubenfeld
Trump Isn’t the First President to Blow Up the Trading System
Can the 47th president avoid the same fate as Richard Nixon?
Matthew Continetti
Tyler Cowen: A Contagion of Uncertainty
Even if the White House ultimately lands on a better policy, this volatility may plunge us into a recession.
Tyler Cowen
Meet Usha Vance: MAGA’s Enigmatic Second Lady
The most impressive person in the job since Abigail Adams is J.D.’s best asset if he ever runs for president. She sits down with The Free Press for her…
Peter Savodnik
Victor Davis Hanson: Donald Trump’s Just Trade War
Ignore the Wall Street hysteria. The president is trying to end a 50-year injustice directed at the U.S.—and to help the most overlooked Americans.
Victor Davis Hanson
Niall Ferguson: Trump’s Tariffs and the End of American Empire
The president stands as much chance of reindustrializing the U.S. as you do of getting your frozen laptop to work by smashing the motherboard with a…
Niall Ferguson
Tyler Cowen: ‘Liberation Day’ Was Even Worse Than Expected
This is perhaps the worst economic own goal I have seen in my lifetime.
Tyler Cowen
I Used to Hate Trump. Now I’m a MAGA Lefty.
The president is giving the working class its best shot at the American Dream in 60 years. That’s why I support him.
Batya Ungar-Sargon
Here Come the Tariffs. The Pain Will Arrive Soon.
Cars will cost more. TVs will cost more. Blue jeans will cost more. Everything will cost more. Is this really how we’re going to revive manufacturing?
Matthew Yglesias
What I Saw at the MAGA Revolution
The New Right must choose. Will it be a serious blend of populism and dynamism—or a channel for resentment and appeasement?
Matthew Continetti
I Used to Be a Complacent Wall Street Guy. Now I’m an Anti-Trump Protester.
Evan Newmark had never participated in a protest in his life. Three weeks ago, that changed. Now, every day, he heads to the Trump Hotel. Why?
Evan Newmark
No Deportations Without Due Process
The public deserves clarity on these cases. So we called the State Department.
The Editors
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Administration Reviewing $9 Billion in Harvard Funding over Antisemitism
‘We will not hesitate to act if Harvard fails to do so.’
Gabe Kaminsky
What Does the New Right Want?
You can’t understand policymaking without ideology. And you can’t understand the Trump White House without understanding this burgeoning movement.
Noah Smith
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