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Are Trump’s new tariffs ‘Liberation’?

At this writing, President Donald Trump plans to impose sweeping new tariffs on imports from around the world. We’re told that “Liberation Day” tariffs will raise $6 trillion in federal revenue over the next decade, plus another trillion from automobile tariffs. But the only true “liberation” will be us Americans — consumers and taxpayers — being liberated from even more of our hard-earned income. So hold on to your wallet. If you don’t believe that Liberation Day is bad news for the overwhelming majority of us, first remember that U.S. consumers are, as always, the ...

Roadmap to reform CDC

A deadly fungus is spreading like crazy across the U.S., sickening and killing hospital patients, and the federal response has been ineffectual at best. It’s in half the states, including New York, with soaring annual increases in the number of patients sickened, per the American Journal of Infection Control. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls Candida auris an “urgent” threat, but talk is cheap. The agency is largely to blame for its rapid spread. It’s a textbook example of a federal agency crying out for a Trump makeover. Between 30% and 60% of patients ...

Why Trump opponents can’t find a lawyer

Last week I wrote about Trump’s crackdown on the pillars of civil society — the universities, the scientific community, the media, the legal profession, and the arts — with the clear intent of intimidating them into silence. Today I want to take a deeper dive into what Trump’s crackdown on the legal community — especially large law firms in Washington — actually means. Frankly, I couldn’t give a sh*t about large law firms in Washington. They make boatloads of money for their partners. Even those whose partners are active Democrats push the party rightward as they round ...

Let’s keep talking about that group chat

There’s much spinning over the grave lapse in national security captured in that group chat outlining a planned bombing raid on the Houthi militia. It goes that it was not that big a deal because the mission was a success. It was not OK. It was lucky. The late-night comedians and “Saturday Night Live” had a good time turning the event into farce. We get the dark humor in having top military intelligence figures -- several unqualified to begin with -- discuss an attack plan on a Signal app and adding a journalist to the guest list. Russia is known to target Signal. Intelligence ...

Team Biden’s mistreatment of a pliant press corps

Michael LaRosa was Jill Biden’s press secretary for the first 18 months of Joe Biden’s presidency, and in recent weeks he’s loosened his lips about how Team Joe mistreated a pliant press corps. In an interview with Cenk Uygur on “The Young Turks” show, LaRosa admitted: “They did bully a lot of journalists, and I think they would tell you that now. They wouldn’t have told you at the time.” LaRosa didn’t want to say the reporters were co-conspirators, but it’s impossible to see all of their obsequious cooperation with Team Biden and think that word is ...