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Back to SearchWhy did ‘strongman’ Trump back down on tariffs?
After doubling down on his promise not to pause his latest tariffs, Donald Trump has announced a 90-day pause for most countries except China. Why di…
1 year, 6 months ago
Has Donald Trump broken Congress?
In a special episode, Jonathan Freedland and Annie Karni of the New York Times look at what seems to be a long-term question for US politics. With Re…
1 year, 6 months ago
Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ and Musk’s bad week
The Guardian’s Rachel Leingang speaks to Nikki McCann Ramirez, from Rolling Stone magazine, about Donald Trump’s decision to upend US trade policy an…
1 year, 6 months ago
Trump’s ‘Signalgate’ blame game
As Donald Trump and his top officials scrabble to respond to the Signal leak scandal, Jonathan Freedland and the New Yorker’s Susan Glasser discuss t…
1 year, 7 months ago
Why are Democrats so divided?
This week a Democratic lawmaker became the first to officially call for the senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, to step down. The veteran Democrat…
1 year, 7 months ago
Has Trump broken the US economy?
This week, Jonathan Freedland speaks to Heather Boushey, an economist and former adviser to Joe Biden, about what Donald Trump’s long game is with hi…
1 year, 7 months ago
Trump turns America’s allies into enemies
This week, Donald Trump picked fights with Canada, Mexico, Ukraine, US veterans and every Democrat sitting in Congress for his State of the Union add…
1 year, 7 months ago
Is the tide starting to turn against Trump?
This week, Donald Trump continued to dominate the world stage, welcoming a procession of global leaders to Washington, including Keir Starmer. But wh…
1 year, 8 months ago
Trump brings Russia in from the cold, but at what cost to Ukraine?
In a matter of days, Donald Trump completed the most radical shift in US foreign policy in decades, bringing Putin back into the fold while sidelinin…
1 year, 8 months ago
Oh, Canada! Can Trump just take it?
On the first day of his second term in office, Donald Trump suggested he wanted the US to ‘expand’ its territory. Few thought he could actually mean …
1 year, 8 months ago