Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world (noun) a tax on imported goods We old trade hands spent years telling people trade policy wasn’t about tariffs any more. Tariffs around the world were low and falling, we said. Trade barriers […]
“I let the word wash over me. I wanted Mom to know I’d heard her, and I repeated back the same word. When I said it, I felt as if I was signing a contract between us.” View Entire Post ›
SACRAMENTO — How do you summarize — or make sense of — 2024? It’s been a year of upheaval, division, winners and losers. And perhaps most disturbingly, a year that has exposed fault lines in American democracy that at times seem too wide to cross. Our columnists Anita Chabria and Mark Z. Barabak continue a tradition […]
The former national security adviser warned that this single trait “won’t serve the country well.”
Words matter. Especially when uttered by a president, and especially overseas. “Speak softly, and carry a big stick,” Theodore Roosevelt advised, though he never envisioned a successor would prove capable of obliterating cities half a world away in under half an hour. That nuclear stick is pretty big indeed, capable since 1945 of keeping our […]
Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday re-upped her calls for a second debate with former President Trump as she courted voters in the critical swing state of Nevada two days before the first vice presidential debate. “In two days, I know we will cheer on Coach Walz when he debates JD Vance. But listen, also,…
