Readers sound off on lawmakers’ money, a roof disaster vigil and stamp prices

Readers sound off on lawmakers’ money, a roof disaster vigil and stamp prices

Trump’s enablers have a limit to their loyalty Stamford, Conn.: Your April 8 editorial “Tariff Man vs. the world” does a fine job of illustrating the lunacy of President Trump’s ridiculous tariff war. It is the product of a man who does an impeccable job of combining ignorance and arrogance. It’s truly stunning that the leader of the Free World is incapable of grasping fundamental economic concepts that are easily learned on day one of a high sc…

How Trump’s Tariffs Fit the Autocrat’s Playbook

Isaac Chotiner interviews the German historian Jan-Werner Müllers, about Donald Trump’s tariffs, right-wing populism, and whether it’s condescending to absolve Trump voters.

The tariff madness of King Donald - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Boar on the floor! I’m afraid that Paul “Too Hot For the New York Tines” Krugman has chosen to write about a topic multiple times. (Time for Patrick Healy to put together another “why is Donald Trump so overwhelmingly popular?” panel!” And it cannot be pointed out often enough that the correct baseline for evaluating the Trump Taxes is “when Trump took office,” not “the even more insane shit he did last week”: Anyone sounding the all-clear on t…

Trump’s tariffs and the will to power

By: Richard K. SHERWIN In the days since US President Donald Trump unleashed his tariff tsunami on the world, economists, investors, and business leaders have almost universally questioned its rationality. As a policy matter, they are right to be scratching their heads. But Trump’s tariffs are not simply about policy. They are of a piece with the animating features of his MAGA (“Make America Great Again”) movement: contempt for science and the r…