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1. The adverse impact of Trump's tariffs could be felt in the rising prices of washing machines and the scrapping of solar projects in the US. Similarly, thanks to Trump's disastrous trade war with China, Latin American countries like Brazil are selling abundance of soybeans to China at US...

By MATT APUZZOAPRIL 9, 2018 WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. raided the Rockefeller Center office and Park Avenue hotel room of President Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, on Monday morning, seizing business records, emails and documents related to several topics, including a payment to...

Donald Trump’s First Year and the Illusion of Choice The basis of Orwellian New-Speak is always to call things by their opposites. Thus, War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, etc. So the USA is engaged in "nation building," not "nation destroying". .

Trump’s hurricane talk and hurricane tweets were like his fair-weather fare: childishly intent on superlatives, puerilely obsessed with size, laden with boasts and lavish with discordant asides. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/29/opinion/trump-ego-harvey-floods.html

As a rule, Republican presidents like offering tax cuts, and President Trump is no different. But the skimpy one-page tax proposal his administration released on Wednesday is, by any historical standard, a laughable stunt by a gang of plutocrats looking to enrich themselves at the expense of the...

It’s rather silly for any president to suggest that his first 100 days somehow topped Roosevelt’s achievement. Lyndon B. Johnson, Ronald Reagan and Obama are credited with significant legislative achievements early in their first terms, but much of their success generally came after the first...

A month shy of the 100-day mark that presidents use to gauge success, Mr. Trump’s largely self-inflicted setbacks are evidence of a novice politician, often uninterested in the inner workings of government, who is struggling to wield his constitutional authority or fully understand the limits of...

WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, asked the Justice Department this weekend to publicly reject President Trump’s assertion that President Barack Obama ordered the tapping of Mr. Trump’s phones, senior American officials said on Sunday. Mr. Comey has argued that the highly charged...

His psychological motivations are too obvious to be interesting, and analyzing them will not halt his headlong power grab. The antidote to a dystopic Trumpean dark age is political, not psychological...

For more than an hour, President Trump demonstrated, again, that he long ago escaped the bounds of reality that restrict most mortals. Donald Trump?s Alternative-Reality Press Conference - The New Yorker

With Republicans in the majority in Congress and unwilling to cross President Donald Trump, the job of containing Trump’s incipient tyranny falls to three groups: the nation’s judges, its independent press and a few state governments. Which is why Trump is escalating attacks on all three...