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Senior DHS official investigated for drug trafficking, charged with disaster fraud

A senior official at Homeland Security was being investigated for potential involvement in drug trafficking, according to new court files unsealed Tuesday.

Trump says he’s ‘not happy’ with EU trade policies

President Trump said he's "not happy" with the European Union, saying it treats American companies unfairly.

Trump cheers cooling inflation as tariff war threatens price hikes

Inflation cooled in February in a much-needed economic win Wednesday for President Trump, whose aggressive trade agenda is alarming Wall Street and could raise prices if suppliers pass the cost of looming tariffs to consumers.

Tesla investor survey finds 85% believe Musk’s role with Trump White House has hurt company

A recent Morgan Stanley survey found that most respondents feel that CEO Elon Musk's political activities are hurting Tesla.

Trump says ceasefire plan is up to Russia

President Trump said Wednesday that it's all up to Russia now when it comes to ending the Russia-Ukraine war.

MAHA moms should look forward to working

These days, successful women choose some variation on one sequence of events: They enter an influential position in the workforce and then use most of their time figuring out how to maximize time with their children. It is all part of the GOP pro-family master plan. The culmination of this pattern comes as a House […]

Trump’s brutally honest gambling

President Donald Trump says the quiet part out loud. He has no sotto voce setting. This militates against statesmanship.  Former President Bill Clinton told CNN years ago it’s best to be “brutally” honest in private but, if you want someone’s help, not to say things in public that embarrass them. But Trump doesn’t work that […]

Good news on inflation

GOOD NEWS ON INFLATION. Biden-era inflation, what many call the “affordability crisis,” was the No. 1 reason Donald Trump was elected president for a second time. Yes, voters wanted Trump to fix the Biden disaster at the U.S.-Mexico border. And yes, they were concerned about crime, woke, and chaos in global affairs. But inflation was the […]

Can Trump hold his course on tariffs?

President Donald Trump set 25% tariffs on all aluminum and steel products after reversing on his previous threats to enforce a 50% tariff. Canada threatened to increase taxes on electricity sold to the United States before Trump said he would double the tariff rate. Canada removed the tax and Trump reduced the tariff to the […]

Tariffs based on tendentious history could be political malpractice

Will the second Trump administration come undone by an economic policy based on what the British military historian Lawrence Freedman, describing Vladimir Putin‘s rationale for invading Ukraine, calls “tendentious history”? This week, it started to look like the answer might be yes. In retrospect, it’s clear how the Biden administration’s economic policy stimulated inflation, which, […]

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