“The bond market is very tricky. I was watching it. But if you look at it now, it’s beautiful.” These were the words with which President Donald Trump accompanied his surprising decision on April 9...
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On Monday morning this week, Peter Dutton, leader of the opposition Liberal Party, introduced his son Harry to the microphone. Dutton clearly hoped that Harry — chisel-jawed and conventionally handsome to an almost ridiculous degree...
Donald Trump’s plan for blanket global tariffs isn’t just roiling the stock market and triggering international upheaval — it’s also opening the door for Trump to relaunch the tariff corruption game of his first term,...
On April 9, Donald Trump reeled in his attack on the global trade system, ordering a ninety-day pause on the steep “reciprocal tariffs” announced one week prior. Targeting many of the United States’ leading trading...
On Monday morning, El Salvador’s right-wing president, Nayib Bukele, visited Donald Trump in the White House in a symbolic show of strengthening the link between the two countries. Bukele is the first Latin American president...
In December, Luigi Mangione was arrested for shooting health insurance executive Brian Thompson. Last week, Trump’s attorney general, Pam Bondi, announced that she was seeking the death penalty. It’s a highly unusual announcement, since Mangione...
Yesterday marked the ninety-fifth anniversary of Vladimir Mayakovsky’s suicide. It is particularly significant today that World War I played such a key role in shaping him. This war led to the revolution in the former...
President Donald Trump and his defenders claim that his recent tariffs will usher in “a new Golden Age of American industrialization and prosperity.” As the president put it, “Tariffs are not just about protecting American...
On Thursday, April 10, United Auto Workers (UAW) president Shawn Fain addressed UAW members and the broader public via video livestream to explain the union’s position on Donald Trump’s tariffs as well as other aspects...
To tariff or not to tariff? Today’s tweet-length political discourse pretends this is a binary choice. President Donald Trump has pitched across-the-board import levies as a panacea to rebuild American manufacturing, while Democrats insist that...
Historian Omer Bartov spoke to Jacobin about why scholars of the Holocaust are struggling to talk frankly about Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Eight people were killed following an air strike carried out by the Israeli...
Big Oil is reportedly lobbying Congress to grant their industry legal protection against a growing number of lawsuits that, if successful, could make oil and gas companies pay billions of dollars for deceiving the public about...
