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Donald Trump’s lose–lose tariffs
Noah Smith
16 April 2025
History shows tariffs are bad for rich economies — and Donald Trump’s decisions so far are actually reducing manufacturing investment
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How do you like your news?
Joshua Benton
11 April 2025
A new study identifies which groups of readers prefer news sources that align with their own views
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, free trader
John Ganz
7 April 2025
Donald Trump’s trade policies couldn’t be more different from FDR’s labour-friendly efforts to open up America to the world
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The reactionary right is not a monolith
Henry Farrell
1 April 2025
J.D. Vance is attempting to straddle two diametrically opposed tendencies on the radical right
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Trust is a fragile plant
Fergus McIntosh
24 March 2025
The
New Yorker
’s chief fact-checker on how we squint to see more clearly
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The potency of jokes
Ian Leslie
21 March 2025
Why breakthroughs emerge from fooling around
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The honeymoon that barely began
Bill Scher
26 February 2025
Trump’s historically bad first month of polls should terrify Republicans
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The far right is rising in the land of “never again”
Jan Böhmermann
21 February 2025
Ahead of Sunday’s German election, satirist Jan Böhmermann’s analysis for the
New York Times
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Don’t believe him
Ezra Klein
7 February 2025
Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different from what he wants you to see
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Chaos and cruelty
David J. Bier
6 February 2025
Joe Biden fixed the immigration system that Trump is once again smashing
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Trump starts to break things
Noah Smith
3 February 2025
The US president’s tariff decisions will damage not just America’s allies but also its own economy
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The populist phantom
Larry M. Bartels
18 January 2025
Democracy erodes from the top
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The wrong sort of power
Lawrence Freedman
21 December 2024
The line from the 1979 Iranian revolution to the 2024 Syrian revolution is clear. Will the same line lead to another revolution in Iran?
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Taking on Trump
Bill Scher
29 November 2024
For everyone’s benefit, the leaders of Canada and Mexico shouldn’t be intimidated by Donald Trump’s tariff threat
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Americans hate inflation more than they hate unemployment
Noah Smith
16 November 2024
Most commentators didn’t realise the impact prices were having on voters’ perceptions of the presidential candidates
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The efficiency paradox
Sam Freedman
26 September 2024
Keir Starmer’s cash-strapped government is looking for savings, but “efficiency dividends” create their own problems
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Ronald Reagan didn’t win the cold war
Max Boot
13 September 2024
Myths about the collapse of the Soviet Union are encouraging mistaken policies towards China