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With Trump’s BLS nominee itching to kill off the monthly jobs reports, public firings and displays of sycophancy may become our best economic indicators.

The president’s takeover of the capital’s police force is a distraction from his own rampant wrongdoing.

This story is tailor made for the July-August silly season, but it will go away when the weather cools.

Once upon a time, we used to say that the cover-up was worse than the crime. It’s safe to say we need to rethink this.

A new survey shows that even Trump’s working-class coalition is moving leftward on social issues.

The president’s tariffs tripled inflation last month—and you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

Kevin Hassett is toadying hard to win the president’s favor. But don’t count out Kevin Warsh or Scott Bessent just yet in this latest White House blandishment derby.

The more extravagant it becomes, the more contempt it secretly conveys. Will Trump ever care?

Most able-bodied Medicaid recipients already have jobs, but those who don’t should receive health care too.

How does the president’s brand of kleptocracy work? It turns out rentier politics is even more lucrative than rentier capitalism.

Avoiding an income-tax increase is nice, but that’s not the bill’s greatest gift to the rich.

Maybe it’s not so mysterious after all: A blockbuster new report reveals that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem secretly took $80,000 in dark-money political donations for herself.

Has there ever been a budget bill more mendacious than Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill?

Say goodbye to the only decent revenue-raiser in the president’s 2017 tax law.

There is promise—and peril—in the government’s “golden share” in U.S. Steel.

It’s getting harder not to read the Federal Reserve chairman’s hesitation to lower interest rates as anything other than a comment on Trump’s incompetence.

Yes, Donald Trump is a threat to democracy. But the far bigger menace is the monstrous growth in wealth concentration over five decades that made a Trump presidency possible—and maybe inevitable. Here’s how we let it happen.

The Senate’s version will blow up the deficit just as much as the House’s—and its Medicaid cuts are deeper.

This is where climate denial meets indifference to worker safety.

More than an odious personal prejudice, it’s also his go-to—and inaccurate—metaphor for the U.S. government.