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Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump’s Tariff Regime

The Supreme Court ruled Friday that most of President Donald Trump’s world-wide tariffs are illegal, dealing a setback to one of the president’s top priorities. Since his second month in office, Trump has set about to impose drastic, varying, and haphazard tariffs on countries across the globe. Trump purported that most of these tariffs were […]


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More Than 120 Civil Society Groups Urge EU to Cancel US Trade Deal

The groups point out the demands that Trump has made on the EU and his “contempt for international law.”


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EU Weighs Deploying Its Own Economic Weapon Against Trump’s Greenland Aggression

“The EU cannot simply move on to business as usual,” said one member of European Parliament.


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A Dictator Deposed—What Now for Venezuela?

Journalist Mariana Zúñiga woke up in the middle of the night to the sounds of explosions and military planes in Caracas, Venezuela. Her WhatsApp chats flashed the news: The ruling dictator, Nicholás Maduro, had just been captured by the US military. She was surprised and felt uneasy about what was to come. In the days […]


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On Tariffs, the Supreme Court’s GOP Justices Appear Ready to Save Trump From Himself

After Wednesday’s oral arguments at the Supreme Court, it appears that a majority of the justices will vote to halt Trump’s imposition of sweeping tariffs under a 1977 emergency powers act. But a loss for Trump will, in fact, be doing him a favor. And the GOP-appointed justices—who have spent the past 10 months giving […]


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The Tariffs Case Is About Power and Loyalty on the Right

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments over President Donald Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on almost every nation on earth, in ever-changing amounts, whenever he feels like it. Legally, this is a case about any number of complicated questions and legal doctrines, including the president’s ability to declare emergencies under the International […]


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A 90-Second Crash Course in Trump’s Betrayal of American Soy Farmers

Tomorrow, Donald Trump is expected to announce a significant aid package for soy farmers hurt by his trade war with China, according to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. China is the world’s largest soybean importer and typically buys about half of the US crop—last year, that came to $12.6 billion dollars. This summer, China has purchased […]


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Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border

This story was originally published by Canada’s National Observer and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Just west of Fort Qu’Appelle in Saskatchewan, the Standing Buffalo Dakota Nation is working across the US border to revive centuries-old trade routes as part of a new Indigenous-governed trade corridor.  Trucks from the First Nation could soon be […]


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Let’s Review Trump’s Week of Massive Legal Losses, Shall We?

It was a week of so much losing. Over the past week, President Donald Trump and his authoritarian agenda have sustained one loss after another in the courts. Putting all of them together reveals a stunning legal rebuke, and unsurprisingly, Trump World has been erupting with anger and petulance. Let’s review: On top of all […]


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Americans Continue to Really Dislike Trump and the Things He Does

NBC is out with a new poll this morning showing Americans continue to dislike Trump and the things he’s doing—including the things he said he was really good at, like fixing the economy. Respondents to the NBC News Decision Desk Poll reported weak approval across a range of signature issues, including tariffs, and mass deportations, […]


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