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Photo: Saul Martinez/Bloomberg It gets harder every day to track the chaos emanating from Donald Trump’s America. The stock market has gyrated wildly, and we are now locked in an unprecedented trade war with China, facing 125 percent tariffs from Beijing that are sparking a whole lot of panic-buying of iPhones. Trump is living his […]

Photo: Shawn Thew/EPA/Bloomberg/Getty Images In theory, the experts at the Elon Musk–helmed Department of Government Efficiency are reviewing federal-government operations and getting rid of “waste, fraud, and abuse,” along with any policies inconsistent with Donald Trump’s directives, in order to reduce federal budget deficits and public borrowing. By now, it’s clear there isn’t much actual

Photo: Jose Luis Magana/AP The Supreme Court issued a rebuke of President Donald Trump on Thursday night, upholding a lower court’s ruling ordering the federal government to “facilitate” the return of wrongly deported immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the U.S. Abrego Garcia, a Maryland father, was detained and deported to a prison in El

Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images Tiffany Trump is pregnant, as her father Donald Trump revealed at a campaign event in October. On Sunday, April 6, Tiffany’s half-sister, Ivanka Trump, threw her a Peter Rabbit–themed baby shower in Miami, which was sweet of her: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ivanka Trump (@ivankatrump) Less

Anadolu via Getty Images The tourist helicopter that crashed into the Hudson River on Thursday afternoon appears to have fallen victim to a well-known hazard known as “mast bumping,” according to aviation experts. Eyewitness video showed the rotors and the body of the helicopter separating in midair. The phenomenon is unique to helicopters with semi-rigid

Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images What are you supposed to do, exactly, when the president won’t stop Tasering the economy for fun? As far as the markets go, if you don’t trade stocks or import goods for a living, the conventional wisdom is the same, just delivered in a quieter voice with sweatier pits:

Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images Donald Trump’s presidential payback tour rages on, and now it’s personal. It’s one thing to target multibillion-dollar law firms, universities, and media outlets for organizational retribution; those efforts, aimed at stifling and punishing any criticism or dissent, are reprehensible in their own right. But now Trump is

Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images They were, in many cases, Donald Trump’s most fervent backers: rich Wall Street types, lawyers at corporate firms, business tycoons, and tech engineers who fervently backed the president by raising and donating many millions of dollars for his election, risking the opprobrium of their fellow moneyed elites. But

Photo: Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters For months, Democratic elected officials have been trying to figure out a compelling message on Donald Trump’s agenda that will gratify the grassroots Democratic demand for vocal and united opposition. At the moment, the headlines are full of extremely high-profile turmoil involving Trump’s “Liberation Day” agenda of tariffs and trade warfare. It

Photo: Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images In a sudden about-face on Wednesday, Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause of many of his hefty “Liberation Day” tariffs on America’s trading partners, following days of tumult on Wall Street and growing expectations that Trump’s trade war would trigger economic catastrophe. His announcement bolstered a massive but short-lived upswing