Politics

Donald Trump’s obsession with tariffs has taken a dark turn, one that might be comedic gold if it weren’t about to cost Americans so much hard-earned cash. To wit: Trump is placing tariffs on countries around the globe — including even remote Antarctic islands inhabited only by penguins — while …

On March 27, 2022, on the heels of a weekend marked by dozens of gang-related murders, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele and his legislature plunged the country into a régimen de excepción — a state of exception — and declared war against the gangs. The state of exception suspended fundamental …

The sweeping tariffs Donald Trump announced on Wednesday don’t make a ton of sense — outside of Trump’s compulsion to flex his presidential powers, and his mysterious hatred of trade deficits. The package of steep taxes on all foreign imports predictably caused markets to crater, and is expected to make …

It’s been a tough quarter for Elon Musk. Not only has Tesla stock dropped 35 percent since President Donald Trump’s inauguration — hacking more than $100 billion off Musk’s personal net worth — today he saw another $20 million go down the drain as the Wisconsin Supreme Court seat he …

The Trump administration gutted federal health agencies on Tuesday morning, as thousands of employees received layoff notices, following Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s announcement last week he was planning to lay off nearly 10,000 workers. More than 7,000 workers at the Centers for Disease Control and …

A New York Judge has dismissed the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams with prejudice — meaning the government will not be able to resubmit charges against the embattled mayor who allied himself with the Trump administration following his indictment last year. On Wednesday, Manhattan Federal District …

Donald Trump is set to impose a sweeping tariffs package today that everyone from economists to Republican lawmakers to even Trump himself has acknowledged will make life harder for working Americans. The president doesn’t seem too bothered. “I couldn’t care less,” he said over the weekend, when asked about his …

Elon Musk is posting through it. Since polls closed in Wisconsin on Tuesday night, he’s posted about genetically-engineered cat girls, humanoid robots, and Tesla sales, along with multiple AI-generated images of himself and CIA Director John Ratliff. He has not posted at all about the person he spent the last …

Donald Trump has dropped a tariff hammer on America’s trading partners, announcing a sprawling set of import taxes that are expected to significantly raise prices for U.S. consumers. The president and his allies heralded April 2 as a historic “Liberation Day” for the United States. “I will sign a historic …

They have been virtually inseparable since the closing weeks of the 2024 campaign, but their closeness has precipitated a question that looms over the relationship: when will Donald Trump and Elon Musk part ways? Two men famed for their egos, temperamental attitudes, spotlight-hogging, and lust for unlimited power surely can’t …