Elissa Slotkin: How Democrats Can Play Offense Against Trump

Elissa Slotkin: How Democrats Can Play Offense Against Trump

Elissa Slotkin knows something about strategy. The Michigan senator formerly worked for George W. Bush’s National Security Council and Barack Obama’s State Department and Department of Defense before first winning a Michigan congressional seat in 2018. Last year, her Senate victory was one of few bright spots for Democrats. Now, Slotkin is applying her strategic thinking to puzzling through how Democrats can best fight Donald Trump. This intervi…

Can Democrats Exploit Trump's Tariff Chaos?

As with many political movements, MAGA represents a fragile coalition of groups that often have little in common — and, at the extremes, may even detest one another. This tension has been brought into clearer focus by Trump’s recent exemption of tech products from tariffs, a decision likely influenced by the oligarchs in the President’s corner. After all, firms like Apple depend largely on Chinese manufacturers, while Wall Street investors still…

In the midst of a trade war, US banking giants benefit from market volatility. Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley have record profits, despite a weakened economy.