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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 […]

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Photo: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call/Getty Images Tariffs aside, the big story in Washington this week has been the latest stage in the struggle of House and Senate Republicans to get on the same page in moving toward enactment of Donald Trump’s legislative agenda via a monstrously large budget-reconciliation bill. They got stuck in the very first

Photo: Nathan Howard/Reuters One of Donald Trump’s most noteworthy characteristics as a president has been his robust deployment of the so-called madman theory in foreign policy. First developed during the Nixon administration, the idea is to convince potential adversaries that the man with his finger on the nuclear trigger has zero compunctions about pressing it

Photo: Nathan Laine/Bloomberg/Getty Images In June of last year, Leopold Aschenbrenner, a 24-year-old former OpenAI employee, published Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead, an urgent manifesto about artificial intelligence. “You can see the future first in San Francisco. Over the past year, the talk of the town has shifted from $10 billion compute clusters to $100

Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images As Donald Trump’s administration settles into a global trade war — at least momentarily obscuring its war on the federal government and on the limitation of executive power, which continues on many fronts — it’s a good time for a reality check on the political capital he carries into

Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images During the 2024 campaign, the “late great Hannibal Lecter” was one of Donald Trump’s favorite rally rants despite the fact that it was wrong in just about every conceivable way. Trump loved his error-ridden Silence of the Lambs bit so much that he even included it in his nomination acceptance speech

Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images On Wednesday, President Donald Trump officially unleashed his latest volley of tariffs, levying extensive “reciprocal” taxes on the United States’s most prominent trade partners. As stock markets wavered as China and the European Union vowed to inflict their own retaliatory tariffs, Trump urged the American people to chill out. “BE COOL!

Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photos: Getty Images Donald Trump’s growing global trade war expanded even further Wednesday as his administration officially instituted sweeping “reciprocal tariffs” against the United States’ international trade partners. The new taxes ranged from 20 percent on the European Union and 32 percent on Taiwan to a staggering 104 percent tariff levied against China,

Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photos: Getty Images The Trump administration has implemented its agenda in rapid fashion since January, instituting steep cuts across the federal government and workforce and wielding its power over the nation’s cultural and educational institutions. But no other city has felt the brunt of Trump’s policies like New York as the president looks