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Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images One of the interpretations often heard about the 2024 elections is that the outcome represented a conservative “correction” for the progressive excesses of the Biden presidency. And indeed, it’s possible to view much of American political history as a left-right oscillation in which one major party’s dominance is countered by a […]

Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images To those of us who have been closely watching the slow unfolding of Donald Trump’s legislative agenda in Congress, it all looks like a giant Jenga tower: imposing but very fragile. Partly because of his party’s narrow margins of control (particularly in the House) and partly because of the “one big,

Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images After President Trump announced sweeping tariffs this week, the financial markets saw their steepest one-day declines since 2020, Americans started panic buying everything from TVs to soy sauce, and financial analysts warned that we’re facing “economic Armageddon.” Like many people, I was feeling pretty jittery about the collapse of the post–World

Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer America’s top tech stocks plunged after Donald Trump’s tariff announcements, with the so-called Magnificent 7 — Nvidia, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and Tesla — losing more than a trillion dollars in collective value the next day and continuing their bleeding on Friday. The president’s rambling “Liberation Day” proclamation contained different versions of the

Photo: Chet Strange/Getty Images Last month, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer rebuffed criticism of his handling of the government spending bill, arguing that averting a shutdown by backing the Republican-led legislation was the best option in an overall terrible situation. “I knew it was a difficult choice and I knew I’d get a lot of

Herika Martinez/AFP/Getty Images Donald Trump recaptured the White House by convincing voters to trust him on two issues: the economy and immigration. So far, the first is not going well. The month after his swearing in, the U.S. added 19,000 fewer jobs than expected and opinion polls showed his approval ratings underwater on the economy.

Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photos Getty Images For the past five years, in its slow and grinding way, the federal government labored to bring some sunlight into the shadowy realm of corporate secrecy. A law passed at the end of Donald Trump’s first term, with the support of his Treasury Department and both parties in Congress, imposing

Photo: Agaton Strom//Redux At any given time, there are a lot of people who are upset with Bryan Johnson, the very online guy who wants to live forever. The entrepreneur, philosopher, and “rejuvenation athlete” is in pursuit of the lofty goal of not dying. If he can’t do that, he intends to at least slow

Photo: Jeenah Moon/The New York Times/Redux You’ll be forgiven if your heart isn’t breaking over the fate of the handful of elite law firms recently targeted by Donald Trump. So a few megarich corporations who help make mega-megarich corporations even richer stand to get a little less rich? We’ve got bigger problems. But don’t skim

Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images Markets around the world plunged on Thursday after President Trump imposed harsh across-the-board tariffs, igniting a probable global trade war. And if there were any hopes that Trump’s tariffs were merely a negotiating tactic, the White House attempted to squash them. Amid the chaos, I spoke with Dan Ives, the