This article is being published in partnership with The Lever, an investigative newsroom. If you like this story, sign up for The Lever’s free newsletter. Last week, Abundance co-author Ezra Klein went viral on social media. In a widely shared video clip from Jon Stewart’s podcast, Klein described the maddeningly …
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Lithuanian President President Gitanas Nausėda, government dignitaries, religious leaders, military personnel, and thousands of spectators gathered on Thursday to send the remains of four American soldiers killed during a training exercise back to the U.S. for burial. They are arriving at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Friday, and …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Donald Trump upended the global economy on Wednesday by announcing a sweeping package of tariffs on goods imported into the United States. The move is expected to significantly increase the price of foreign-produced goods — from produce, to alcohol, to cars, and beyond. The White House seemed to be well …
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W aving red-and-white flags and blasting an independence song from a speaker box, a parade of about 40 Siumut faithful, long the dominant political party, is on the march in Nuuk, Greenland’s frozen capital. Cloaked in parkas, they pass a cluster of wooden homes built by the first Danish settlers …
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President Trump has fired six National Security Council staffers a day after meeting withfar-right troll and conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer. Loomer — a 9/11 conspiracy theorist known for chaining herself to the doors of Twitter after losing her account — met with Trump in the Oval Office on Wednesday, where …
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Donald Trump’s new tariff regime is going to cost you a bundle. Tariffs can be confusing financial weapons. They are often framed as being slapped on exporting countries — e.g., a 25 percent tariff on Canadian auto parts. But the tax itself is actually paid by the American importer, and …
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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 …
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