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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save President Donald Trump’s administration recently raised tariffs on steel and aluminum imports to 50%, less than three months after imposing a 25% tariff on them. But like the overall Trump policy, the steel and aluminum…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) achieved the seemingly impossible in getting President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill” across the finish line with a one-vote margin. However, Trump’s legislative legacy only passed the lower chamber…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Defying the laws of political gravity, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) wrangled a razor-thin Republican majority to pass the president’s “one big, beautiful bill” by a single-vote margin. The 215-214 score included most House Republicans,…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save President Donald Trump is right that Americans pay too high a price for many pharmaceuticals. In a May 12 speech and signing of an executive order aimed at rectifying the problem, Trump correctly diagnosed the…

BELGRADE — The protests that shut down Serbia’s capital were fiery but mostly peaceful, in no small part due to a police force that understood the entire government’s fate rested on its restraint.  “In the end, they destroyed 186 tractors, and the only big fight — they made it between themselves,” Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic…

After months of late-night threats, offline and online backchanneling, and eleventh-hour temporary reprieves, President Donald Trump has finally enacted 25% tariffs on imports from our two top trading partners, Mexico and China. In the process, Trump has made the highest-stakes gamble on his presidency, first and second terms. Trump retroactively paused tariffs on specific auto…

The broader job market has remained largely robust amid the Federal Reserve‘s monetary tightening, but you wouldn’t know it if you looked only at the latest headlines about the news media. MSNBC recently fired nearly 100 staffers across nine different shows, including progressive panjandrum Joy Reid, after CNN announced in January that it would cut…

Albania’s Sali Berisha is the charismatic champion of his country’s conservative opposition to an aging elite that holds power. Former President Joe Biden, while still in office, tried to get him sentenced to prison for the remainder of his natural life. Biden was helped by ideological left-wing prosecutors bankrolled by billionaire George Soros. Berisha is…

It’s pointless to rehash whether Donald Trump should be taken seriously or literally. Particularly when it comes to the former and future president’s economic policies. Rather, Trump’s words are best understood through a prism of the broader story about the markets and the broader U.S. economy. The Republican may toss out contradictory policy proposals, seemingly…

Tradwives, “stay-at-home-girlfriends,” and even bargain barrel feminists who bray on about the burden of “emotional labor.” These groups of young women each reject employment as antithetical to the feminine disposition, though for starkly different reasons. Here’s why they’re all wrong. They all forget that women have always worked for pay. Neither capitalism nor feminism are…