Whiplash From the White House, and a SpaceX Explosion
Ben Casselman writes about economics with a particular focus on stories involving data. He has covered the economy for nearly 20 years, and his recent work has focused on how…
Trump Wants Europe to Defend Itself. Here’s What It Would Take.
President Trump has never had much love for the NATO alliance, which he thinks is overdependent on American largess, and in his first term, talked about abandoning the collective defense…
As Catholics Gather for Jubilee, Just One Thing Is Missing: Francis
Rome had spent months prepping up for the Roman Catholic Church Jubilee. It built tunnels, opened up squares and scrubbed moldy fountains. Now thousands of pilgrims were flocking from all…
Opinion | The Right’s Trump Derangement Syndrome
Shortly before the last election, Scott Bessent, now Donald Trump’s Treasury secretary, assured The Financial Times that Trump had no interest in reducing international trade and that his threats to…
Opinion | The Anti-D.E.I. Crusader Who Wants to Dismantle the Department of Education
Hi again listeners, it’s Ross. So this week, we’re going to talk about DEI diversity, equity and inclusion a vision of social justice that took elite America and all its…
Trump’s Policies Have Shaken a Once-Solid Economic Outlook
President Trump inherited an economy that was, by most conventional measures, firing on all cylinders. Wages, consumer spending and corporate profits were rising. Unemployment was low. The inflation rate, though…
Republican Voters Support Medicaid but Want Work Requirements, Poll Finds
As Congressional Republicans weigh major cuts to Medicaid, most voters do not want to see the public health plan’s funding dialed back, according to a poll released Friday by KFF,…
South Carolina Inmate Set to Be Executed by Firing Squad
South Carolina is planning to execute a prisoner on Friday evening with a firing squad, an extremely rare method that has not been used in the United States since 2010.…
How Trump’s ‘51st State’ Canada Talk Came to Be Seen as Deadly Serious
After President Trump imposed tariffs on Canada on Tuesday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made an extraordinary statement that was largely lost in the fray of the moment. “The excuse that…
Fired Federal Workers Face a Sluggish Job Market
For about a year now, the labor market has existed in a state of eerie calm: Not many people were losing their jobs or quitting, but not many of those…