It is seriously amazing that not very long ago, in the pre-Obama era, we all were made to pretzel ourselves into ridiculous little dances to pretend that Fox News somehow was not a propaganda machine and instead was merely a Republican-friendly but straight shooting news outlet.

This is a pretty remarkable exchange from Trump’s Univision town hall in Florida tonight. Note the dismay on the questioner’s face. x.com/kamalahq/sta...

The rosiest fallout of the Woodward book is that it makes pretty clear that the White House has not been covering up some broader Biden health/age crisis and, moreover, he does in fact seem to demonstrate considerable vigor in seeing to the actual daily functions of the job.

Trump tariff projections: - Cost to typical family: $2,600/yr (Peterson); - Gas price hike: 75 cent/gallon (GasBuddy); - Poorest pay 6% more (ITEP); - US stock contraction: ~10% (UBS); - ~20% decline in GM earnings (Evercore); - 684K fewer jobs (Tax Foundation) washingtonpost.com/business/202...

‘Off the charts’: How Trump tariffs would shock U.S., world economies

Trump's tariff plans could lead to economic isolation, affecting global markets and increasing costs for American consumers.

I think the extremely stupid thing Democrats do where they frame their own narrow victories as near losses does quite a bit of underappreciated collateral damage.

39 minutes. 30. 9. MINUTES.

In a normal campaign there’d be repercussions for a guy that pardoned or commuted a half dozen or so people who went on to commit more crimes.

I want to state clearly for the record that the pressure not to say it's one side/party that's doing this is real in both academia and journalism.

WSJ survey of economists. This is as close to unanimity as the profession gets

It’s *wild* that we have an actual cross-partisan coalition actively standing against Trump’s election — including multiple members of his previous administration — and it just… somehow doesn’t rate as a news item.