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May 9, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Trump Gives China Major Tariffs Concession Before Talks Even Begin
Donald Trump is so desperate to get a trade deal with China that he’s already backing down.
May 9, 2025
Grace Segers
Forget Fertility Rates—Here’s What a Baby Bonus Would Mean for Poverty
In theory, “pronatalist” policies could help alleviate child poverty—but only if they’re paired with other efforts to strengthen the social safety net.
May 8, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Vance Just Made Trump’s Dolls Comment Even Weirder
JD Vance took Donald Trump’s comments to an even more nonsensical place.
May 8, 2025
Timothy Noah
The Big Winner of Trump’s Much-Hyped Trade Deal Is ... Not the U.S.
It’s a great day to be an Anglophile. But the global economy is still on the verge of a ruinous trade war.
May 8, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Exposes Own Idiocy With Comment About Looming Shortages
Donald Trump had a mind-blowing defense for the pending supply shortages.
May 8, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Trump Admits He’s Wildly Exaggerating Benefits of U.K. Trade Deal
Trump’s trade deal with the United Kingdom isn’t even official yet.
May 8, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Melts Down Over Federal Reserve’s Five-Alarm Warning on Economy
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell warned that there was a high risk of stagflation.
May 7, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Federal Reserve Rings Every Alarm Bell About Trump’s Economy
Fed Chair Jerome Powell has delivered an alarming warning about Trump’s tariffs causing stagflation.
May 7, 2025
Marin Scotten
Ford Hikes Car Prices Thanks to Trump’s Reckless Tariffs
Consumers are already seeing the costs of Trump’s trade war.
May 7, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Treasury Sec. Says Kids Need to Suck it up for Greater Good
Scott Bessent defended Donald Trump’s doll comments, saying it would be for the greater good.
May 7, 2025
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Rants About Young Girls’ Dolls Just Got Weirder and Darker
Who actually wants to work at a Barbie doll factory in America, anyway?
May 6, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Accidentally Admits He Hasn’t Made Any Trade Deals
Donald Trump has continually insisted that deals over his tariffs are coming.
May 6, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Canada PM Gives Trump Middle Finger on Wild In-Person Statehood Pitch
Donald Trump pitched statehood to the man who was just elected by campaigning on rejecting statehood.
May 6, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Trashes Canada Just Minutes Before Prime Minister Visits
Donald Trump continues to insist that Canada needs the United States.
May 6, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Trump Treasury Secretary Crashes When Asked Easy Question on Tariffs
Scott Bessent glitched as he tried to answer a question about the real costs of tariffs.
May 6, 2025
Timothy Noah
Trump’s Movie Tariffs Won’t Save Hollywood
American movies are dying, but not in the way Trump imagines.
May 5, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Remember That Wild Photoshoot of Young Barron Trump and His Many Toys?
As Donald Trump preaches about buying kids fewer dolls, the internet has resurfaced photos of some of the toys Barron Trump grew up with.
May 5, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Here’s Where Trump Got His Idiotic Idea to Tariff Foreign Movies
Someone close to Donald Trump planted the idea in his head that the United States should tariff foreign movies (whatever that means).
May 5, 2025
Grace Segers
The Republican Budget Plan Could Kick Millions Off Medicaid
As GOP lawmakers mull how to slash federal spending, health care for low-income Americans could be first on the chopping block.
May 5, 2025
Michael Tomasky
Donald Trump’s Biggest, Dumbest Lie Is …
Really
Big and
Really
Dumb
The president is peddling hot nonsense on what tariffs can do for America—and the person he’s conned the most seems to be himself.
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