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The Trade Adviser Who Hates Trade

admin25 April 2025

On a clear day last July in Miami, Peter Navarro emerged from four months in federal prison, where he’d been imprisoned for contempt of Congress. Mr. Navarro had refused to testify in an investigation of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, an action he ...

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Meloni and Trump: Oval Office Meeting Cements Special Rapport

admin25 April 2025

In Washington, President Trump lavished praise on Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy. He also accepted her invitation to visit Rome.

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The Slippery Slope of Political Iconography

admin25 April 2025

A lapel pin in the likeness of President Trump, worn by the chairman of the F.C.C., raises some questions.

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Melania Trump’s Easter Surprise

admin25 April 2025

She did not, despite her penchant for hats, wear an Easter bonnet. Instead, when Melania Trump materialized on a flower-festooned White House balcony next to her husband (who was in his usual red, white and blue) to celebrate the White House Easter ...

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Trump Joins Japan Trade Talks, Says ‘Big Progress’ Made

admin24 April 2025

For his first face-to-face talks on tariffs, the president chose Japan, a U.S. ally that decades ago stirred his anger over the unequal balance of trade and his penchant for tariffs.

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Autoworkers Union Chief Gives Trump’s Tariffs a Mixed Review

admin24 April 2025

In an address to the U.A.W., Shawn Fain said a targeted approach could help bring jobs back to the United States, but he criticized universal duties.

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The Face-Plant President

admin24 April 2025

Harold Macmillan, the midcentury British prime minister, supposedly said that what statesmen feared most were “events, dear boy, events.” Misfortunes happen: a natural disaster, a terrorist attack, a foreign crisis. Political leaders are judged by ...

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Trump Is Insatiable

admin24 April 2025

As President Trump’s assault on America’s civic institutions approaches its 100th day, the question is whether those charged with maintaining the integrity of Congress, the law, the courts, the media, academia and the civil service recognize the ...

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I Caught a Glimpse of the New World Order in Greenland

admin24 April 2025

It’s hard to avoid America these days in Greenland. In downtown Nuuk, the capital, an electronic news ticker streams near-constant updates on the Trump administration’s fixation on acquiring this Danish territory. Even before retaking office in ...

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Trump’s Tariffs Will Pay Off, for China

admin24 April 2025

No part of the world will be hit harder by President Trump’s barrage of “reciprocal” tariffs than the Asia-Pacific region. Despite his 90-day pause in imposing them, some of Mr. Trump’s steepest tariff rates still hang over developing economies such ...

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