President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are making me feel like I’m smack dab back in the middle of the old Cold War racket — the racket that succeeded in making the U.S. national-security state and its ever-growing army of “defense” contractors a permanent feature of American life.
The past year brought dramatic changes to U.S. trade policy, including sweeping new tariffs, as well as a Supreme Court decision that further reshaped the tariff landscape. Many businesses saw their costs increase significantly and faced complex decisions about whether to absorb the tariffs through lower profit margins, raise their prices to recover the higher costs, or some combination of the two.The past year brought dramatic changes to U.S. trade policy, including sweeping new tariffs, as well as a Supreme Court decision that further reshaped the tariff landscape. Many businesses saw their costs increase significantly and faced complex decisions about whether to absorb the tariffs through lower profit margins, raise their prices to recover the higher costs, or some combination of the two.
We are experiencing a global outbreak of stupidity that afflicts political elites disproportionally.
Eisenhower’s warning that US policy would be captured by a scientific-technological elite supplies a specific reason the US sustains the Ukraine war: Ukraine has become a unique, live-fire laboratory for AI warfare at scale
Recently, NATO has continuously strengthened its military deployment in the High North and the Baltic Sea direction, intensively conducting multiple joint exercises such as “Aurora 26” and “Polaris 26.”
Global investors are increasingly looking beyond the United States in search of undervalued growth opportunities. Europe, emerging markets, and regional markets with lower valuation multiples are once again attracting attention. Against this backdrop, Russian assets, which remain under a deep sanction discount, may once again catch the eye of international capital, provided the geopolitical background improves.
The semiquincentennial is becoming a proxy battle over patriotism, belonging and whether the country’s founding ideals should be celebrated as settled history or unfinished work.
In a deeply divided country, one issue is cutting through the noise: Americans increasingly agree that the affordability crisis is real and that it could get worse.
