Trump has promised an end to the war dozens of times, and yet the market never learns: The president also tells us that the United States is on the cusp of a deal with Iran. Hmm. Where have I heard that before? By my count, he’s made...
A couple of days ago I was asked to comment on the possibility of impeaching Trump after the midterms. I hadn't really thought about that at all, and I concluded.
Very hard to say anything conclusive about cease-fire negotiations but it does seem that the Iranians are both acknowledging that progress has been made and that they are actively considering.
Krugman on what a consummate (and foreseeable) disaster Trump 2.0 has been for rural areas: When I say that rural whites are very Trumpy, I mean very Trumpy. In 2024 Donald Trump narrowly won the popular vote, with only a 1.5 percentage point margin. But he won rural...
I think this means he's ended 19 wars now: After two days of pounding Iran with airstrikes, President Trump on Thursday morning promised to hit Iran hard again for a.
If there's one thing Donald Trump believes in, it's rich people breaking the law and getting away with it: Trump administration officials earlier this year killed a federal criminal investigation.
I am spending the next six weeks in Argentina and Chile, theoretically learning Spanish, more likely sounding like an asshole to my teachers and fellow students. Prepare accordingly for posts about the region. What is this "World Cup" I keep hearing about? Argentina is...good at something?...
This sounds pretty rough: For George H.W. Bush’s first medical checkup as president in 1989, he was seen by five specialists, the White House said at the time. His son.
Steve Lubet reminded me this morning that Scott and I have engaged in a certain amount of informal and indirect debate on the very difficult scientific question of who is.
Dear lord: “He told me he was a former fighter pilot, and I had no reason to doubt him,” Harting said. “He was completely believable. He looked the part. He talked the part.” But now Bellmer and Harting don’t know what to believe after prosecutors accused...
Good piece about how Brexit compounded what was already a running economic disaster in the UK: In 2007, before the global financial crisis, Britain was at its postimperial zenith. Median.
Under Biden, inflation was at least matched or exceeded by wage gains. For psychological reasons, this appears to be politically worse than both being flat, but for the most part.