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The defense secretary’s broker allegedly sought a stake in major defense companies in the weeks before the bombing began—just the latest example of potential insider trading on the war.

Wall Street was bound to notice sooner or later that the economy is unwell. Now it has.

The administration’s government-building fire sale has put historic artworks in the Cohen building in jeopardy. But Representative Lloyd Doggett and other Democrats are on the case.

The president has fashioned the U.S. into a petrostate, in which all roads lead to his own enrichment.

We shouldn’t forget the reasons he has come to be revered, but his legacy was tarnished long before this.

Alas, that doesn’t necessarily mean Democrats are winning them back.

There’s an increasing chance that the economy will be in recession come the midterm elections this fall.

Instead of proposing income tax cuts for low earners who pay little or no income tax in the first place, how about FICA cuts—offset by taxing the rich?

Iraq cost us $6 trillion. Even a short Iran war could add $1 trillion to a budget deficit that Trump may already be tripling.

The president was already doubling the budget deficit. With the high court’s tariff decision, he’s tripling it. There’s only one solution: Repeal his “big, beautiful” tax cut.

You don’t know the half of it.

Has the president’s pick to run the central bank decided to renounce his previous views? Or does Trump just like fighting with his appointees?

The kleptocratic nightmare we’re all living in is about to get worse.

The more thuggish the treasury secretary gets, the more reason to fear the economy will tank.

A reluctance to relive the 1990s overwhelms justice, common sense, and good faith.

In a sad and seedy music-hall performance, a senile autocrat rages against the dimming of his country’s light, as well as his own.

The Massachusetts senator is right that her party is too beholden to the donor class. How on earth could anyone dispute that? And yet …

What’s a Fed chair got to do to get people interested in the criminalization of monetary policy?

As Trump floods the zone with mendacity, more and more people are tuning out the news to avoid him. We need a fresh approach.

The United States used to believe foreign wars should promote democracy. Not anymore.