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One of the nagging questions about the DOGE fiasco is why. Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency was established to cut $2 trillion from...
If you doubt that President Donald Trump is successfully trashing the administrative state, consider a rule change that the Securities and Exchange...
The political ascent of Donald Trump has forced me to adjust upward my estimation of the American public’s gullibility. That Trump is a fraud is...
Editor’s note: Commentators are expressing concern about a Time cover story by Eric Cortellessa in which our commander in chief’s mind appears to...
President Donald Trump picked an odd political moment to remove guardrails from the private equity industry. A July poll commissioned by Americans for...
“We’re going to hold the crooks accountable,” House Democratic leader Hakim Jeffries told the Associated Press last week in anticipation of the...
In the annals of government-press relations, the Trump White House will go down as the first to punish reporters for publishing information it wanted...
The most remarkable thing about President Donald Trump’s hissy-fit expulsion of CNN, Politico, and MS NOW from the White House grounds is how...
“If something cannot go on forever,” the economist Herbert Stein once said, “it will stop.” A logician would scorn this as a tautology, but...
Nearly two years after an unnoticed amendment to a water resources bill mandated the sale of the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building—a government...
You’ve probably heard the one about the masochist who asks the sadist to beat him up. The sadist says no. That hoary joke came to mind when I saw...
The Federal Reserve’s Open Markets Committee, or FOMC, meets September 15 and 16 to decide whether to raise interest rates, lower interest rates, or...
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed earlier this month a resolution that “condemns and denounces socialism in all its forms,...
I’ve been wondering lately whether the Great Bond Selloff of 2026 might force rich people to make Sophie’s Choice between low taxes and a stable...
Happy Labor Day! (Well, almost.) There’s no better time to assess President Donald Trump’s labor market and labor policies in advance of...
One of the business world’s more nauseating capitulations to President Donald Trump has been that of the world’s third-richest human, Jeff Bezos...
Since January 2025, a reigning principle of global markets has been something called TACO. TACO stands for “Trump Always Chickens Out,” meaning...
If you want to open any kind of national bank in this country you have to get permission from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, or OCC....
It’s election time, so the White House, according to Bloomberg’s Katy O’Donnell and Caitlin Reilly, is weighing whether to give the rich more...
One of the more prescient books of our still-young century was Jacob Hacker’s The Great Risk Shift (2008), which explained how government and...
The most powerful tool of the American imperium is not, as is generally supposed, its military, but rather its currency. Other nations (China, India)...
I wrote in July about how Donald Trump, despite rhapsodizing about the virtues of competitive bidding (“it sharpens their game, makes them bid...
The Senate Judiciary Committee’s inexplicable advancement of Todd Blanche’s nomination for attorney general—who is now, according to...
President Donald Trump is a whiz at creating problems out of things that you never, ever worried about before. The latest concerns the Freedom 250...
As recently as 1957, it was news when an American, the oil man H.L. Hunt, ranked among the five richest people on earth. In those days, the only path...
“Corporations are people, my friend,” Mitt Romney famously said in 2011 while running for president. The Supreme Court decided the previous year...
Last week, in an update about efforts to save the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building—a.k.a. “the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal” —I mentioned in...
When I build a building, I let various builders and architects compete for the contract. Why? Because it sharpens their game, makes them bid...
In March, I reported on a tour conducted by the General Services Administration, the executive branch’s real estate arm, of the remarkable New Deal...
Senator Lindsey Graham died Saturday evening from a sudden tear in his aorta. He was 71, making his death an untimely one. But we can regret...
The Atlantic is a magazine about the imminent loss of all that we hold dear. That’s a business model likely pitched to older readers, whose keener...
On Wednesday, I discussed how the White House Domestic Policy Council’s Saving America’s Story report makes a number of false claims about...
You can sort of tell the White House’s Domestic Policy Council knew it had a dud when it released its condemnation of the National Museum of...
Being president of the United States is by far the most lucrative business venture of Donald Trump’s checkered business career. The June 30 release...
This week’s Supreme Court ruling giving President Donald Trump a free hand in firing government regulators is less about Trump than it is about...
In 2013, McDonald’s generated some ghastly publicity when it came out that the fast-food giant was advising burger flippers to go on food stamps....
For nine months I’ve been making a stink about the Trump administration’s imminent sale of the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, which houses the...
Less than one month after President Donald Trump’s second inauguration I ventured the prediction that Trump’s anti-regulation strategy, which was...
The United States has a storied history of medical charlatanism. In the 1890s, a Pennsylvania newspaper reporter turned publisher turned patent...
For years, the conservative partisan playbook to win working-class votes was to ignore economic inequality and demagogue the culture war. The...
You know already that President Donald Trump is on a rampage to build hideous oversized structures in Washington, D.C. (the Epstein Ballroom, the Arc...
In Oscar Wilde’s 1895 comedy The Importance of Being Earnest, the epigram-spouting Lady Bracknell is told by Jack Worthing, her daughter’s suitor,...
A famous figure who lives a very long life risks outliving his fame. That was the case for Robert Coles, the celebrated child psychiatrist and social...
Even Crystal S. Carey, Republican general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, or NLRB, the federal agency that adjudicates labor-management...
Bill Pulte for director of national intelligence? Really?
A great riddle of the 2024 election is how Donald Trump managed to double (to 14 points) his advantage among working class voters, defined as those...
Through some combination of malignant narcissism, incipient dementia, and raging dyscalculia, President Donald Trump struggles to distinguish his 80th...
“The dignity of work” is a somewhat old-fashioned phrase that’s seldom uttered these days. The left tends to view it with suspicion because it...
Donald Trump calls climate change a “hoax,” a “scam,” and a “con job.” He has (twice) withdrawn the United States from the Paris Climate...
Let’s don’t waste any time debating the legality of President Donald Trump’s IRS “settlement” (click here to read part one and here to read...
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