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Trump’s tariffs rollercoaster is really about Republican unity

After announcing Liberation Day – stiff “retaliatory” tariffs on every country and penguin-inhabited island in the world – US President Donald Trump rescinded the vast majority of tariffs eight days later when stock and bond markets crashed.

The Conversation · Apr 15, 2025

USAID: the human cost of Donald Trump’s aid freeze for a war-torn part of Sudan

The day of Donald Trump’s second inauguration, his incoming administration abruptly paused the work of USAID, while also claiming that it would preserve USAID’s “lifesaving and strategic aid programming”. These dramatic, overnight cuts were an unprecedented – and deadly – experiment in relation to aid spending which will have a…

The Conversation · Apr 10, 2025

‘High people ideas’: Dave Chappelle’s scathing take on Trump’s policies goes viral as trade war escalates

Eight years ago the comedian gave his verdict on Trump’s approach to international relations - and it is being shared again after the president declared economic war on the world

The Independent UK · Apr 9, 2025

‘Trump and Musk are setting the example’: how companies are becoming emboldened to be more anti-union

As the White House carries out an anti-worker agenda, labor leaders fear corporate America could also grow more hostile

The Guardian - US · Apr 7, 2025

The sad decline of Gore Vidal, America’s most acerbic writer and fearsome feuder

THE READING LIST: As the world approaches the centenary of the celebrated novelist, television pundit and all-around man of letters, Martin Chilton recalls his greatest work, most withering putdowns, and chronicles a career that devolved into ‘crackpot’ conspiracy theories, illness and, perhaps most depressing of all, boredom

The Independent UK · Apr 7, 2025

The right’s 60-year war on education

Trump's attacks on elite universities echo the right-wing playbook Ronald Reagan created nearly six decades ago

Salon · Apr 6, 2025

Donald Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ will live in infamy

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The president of the United States has dismantled the world trade system, pushed the global economy towards another slump and turned economics on its head. He must end this madness

The Independent UK · Apr 4, 2025

Trump goes full gameshow host to push his tariff plan – and nobody’s a winner

There were charts and scores, as if The Price Is Right had come to Washington. The big prize? A global trade war

The Guardian - US · Apr 2, 2025

Ronald Reagan warns of Donald Trump trade war tactic in speech from 1988

Former US president Ronald Reagan warned of a Donald Trump-style trade war tactic in a radio address nearly 40 years ago.

The Independent UK · Apr 1, 2025

Homeland by Richard Beck review – how 9/11 changed the US for ever

Journalist Beck argues that the war on terror made America vastly more authoritarian, paving the way for Trump

The Guardian - UK · Mar 26, 2025