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Washington Post
2 days ago
- Business
- Washington Post
Is Trump chickening out on foreign policy?
Is Trump chickening out on foreign policy? Some investors on Wall Street are starting to call President Trump's bluffs on tariffs — coining the acronym TACO, for 'Trump Always Chickens Out.' But will Trump make good on his promises to end the conflict in Ukraine, strike a deal with Iran and make nice with China? Or is his strongman approach just making things worse? Columnists Dana Milbank, Catherine Rampell and Jim Geraghty discuss how difficult it is to strike deals when Trump's actual policy objectives are so muddled.
Washington Post
27-05-2025
- Business
- Washington Post
Can universities survive this?
Can universities survive this? President Trump, under the cover of the culture war, is attempting to pull billions of dollars in funding from universities unless they agree to his ideological demands. After Harvard refused and sued the Trump administration, Trump tried banning all of its 27 percent of international students last week. Dana Milbank, Catherine Rampell and Jason Willick discuss why the president is so obsessed with attacking universities, and what the consequences might be for future students.
Washington Post
23-05-2025
- Politics
- Washington Post
Inventing the H-bomb is nothing. Trump invented a South Africa crisis.
In today's edition: Dana Milbank and Monica Hesse were doubly flummoxed by President Donald Trump's Oval Office meeting this week with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. 'This is just embarrassing,' reads Dana's understated headline. And Monica confessed that if her readers weren't already at least a little caught up on Trump's claims about 'dead White farmers' in South Africa, she was 'not sure that any amount of column inches can fully explain them.'
Washington Post
20-05-2025
- Business
- Washington Post
There's nothing beautiful about this big bill
There's nothing beautiful about this big bill Republicans are haggling over the details of how much to cut Medicaid and food stamps while also trying to give bigger tax breaks to the richest Americans. Meanwhile, the rating agency Moody's has downgraded the United States' perfect economic score for the first time, because of how much this bill could run up the national debt. Dana Milbank, James Hohmann and Natasha Sarin talk about whether the Republicans can get this legislation over the finish line and why America is suffering from 'boy-who-called-wolf energy' when it comes to the federal debt.
Washington Post
13-05-2025
- Politics
- Washington Post
The Art of the Grift
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