Timothy Noah

We haven’t had much occasion to see our leaders put to the test. But the Trump administration is making strict demands that aren’t easy to meet.

The president’s trade war frenzy continues, now framed as liberation—only without the nylons and cigarettes.

Prosperity is overrated, according to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

The sight of the president setting fire to the portfolios of his pet oligarchs offers us all another reason to not be fabulously rich.

It’s no surprise that the president deleted “climate change” from government websites. But why forbid “advocate” and “institutional”?

Beware the false consciousness of the one percent.

There are a lot of effective ways to protest what’s happening to the country. Boycotting everything is not one of them.

If Scott Bessent’s deperate attempt to pin the looming downturn on his boss’s predecessor is any guide, then the numbers the White House is seeing must be truly terrible.

I counted several Sieg Heils on the CPAC stage, then did a number of things to purge that from my memory.

Turns out that when you paralyze government agencies, it only makes it harder to undo Biden-era regulations.

The markets haven’t freaked out about the president’s weird contention that he might renege on a portion of the national debt yet. But if he keeps talking about it—watch out.

Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Jean Piaget could tell you more about the president’s rationale—or the lack thereof—than any economist.

The president won’t clarify what his price for ending his idiotic trade war is. Maybe that’s because it’s something he dare not say out loud.

Some in the chattering class think it’s high time that the party abandon these voters. This could not be more wrongheaded.

Chaos isn’t a by-product; it’s the goal.

Scott Bessent tried to polish the president’s big economic policy turd at his confirmation hearing. It’s still a turd.

The Fraternal Order of Police, which endorsed Trump, belatedly condemned the decision long after their dissent might have mattered.

The miraculously resurrected president promised in his inaugural speech to resurrect a country that was doing quite well without him at the helm.

Abolish them, and corporations might even say thank you.