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Trump Tariff Fiasco Worsens as Bizarre New Ramblings to Media Backfire
After President Donald Trump threatened to single out Apple with tariffs, he offered remarks to reporters that badly undercut his case. First he seemed to say this would apply...
Nathan Fielder’s “The Rehearsal” Takes Flight
As this list of rehearsals might suggest, while most of what happens in the show starts in the airport, it’s not really about that. In fact, the more the...
What America Made of Marx
The larger message of Marxism wasn’t getting through: As Hartman remarks, “Either there was something wrong with their theory, or there was something wrong with the working class.” The...
Trump’s “Golden Dome” Won’t Work—but It’ll Make Elon Musk Richer
This is all nonsense, of course. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that a Golden Dome system would cost as much as $831 billion over two decades. Scientists warn that...
Joe Biden Is the Least of Democrats’ Problems
Donald Trump did not fire any commissioners from the [Federal Trade Commission] today. Donald Trump declared that he had fired the commissioners. That is, functionally, he announced a desire...
The Dark, Nihilistic Philosophy Behind the IVF Clinic Bombing
Last weekend’s bombing of an in vitro fertilization clinic in Palm Springs, California, was not merely shocking for its violence. The arguably more disturbing aspect of this tragic event...
The Texas Judge Race That Republicans Are Suddenly Eyeing
But lurking behind the curtain of her marginal campaign for Harris County Judge (an executive position, presiding over a four-person Commissioners Court) is a national powerhouse. On the same...
Trump’s Crypto Dinner Guests Admit They’re Trying to Buy Him Off
“It’s kind of a fund-raiser” for Mr. Trump, Korean crypto executive Sangrok Oh and another dinner attendee, told the Times. “And he’ll always be good to his sponsors.”The dinner...
Trump’s Lie About Dead “White Farmers” Just Got Even More Grotesque
As I argued recently, Trump’s “white genocide” imagery draws heavily on a kind of internationalized “great replacement theory” that’s popular among white nationalists. In this storytelling, embattled white populations...
Here’s What Happened at Trump’s Shady Cryptocurrency Dinner
Crypto-investors anonymously shelled out a total $148 million to purchase access to Donald Trump, but all they got was a low-quality steak. Guests at Trump’s supposedly “intimate” gala for...
