Donald Trump wants you to believe tariffs are magic.   He jumps on Truth Social and brags that foreign countries are paying the bill while “cash pours into our Treasury.” Importers are paying more, and of course retailers are passing it along.   That’s how markets work. When you slap tariffs on goods, the people bringing them in pay extra.    Businesses won’t eat that cost out of charity, they tack it onto the price tag.    Now families in Northern Michigan are paying more fo

Over the weekend Trump rolled out the red carpet for Vladimir Putin in Alaska.   I’m not using a turn of phrase. He literally had a red carpet rolled out for a dictator and war criminal. He ordered American troops to line up and clap like stagehands in a show, reduced to background noise while he played game show host.   Then came the concessions. Trump tossed out the cease-fire demand. He froze penalties.   And he endorsed giving Russia what is left of the Donbas, even terri

This week, Pete Hegseth promoted a video where his pastor explained that women should lose the right to vote, be banned from the military, and “submit” to their husbands. Trump’s Secretary of Defense and the Pentagon’s most overpaid group chat liability thinks the Pentagon’s mission should be to make sure women have fewer rights than they did in 1920.   Let’s remember that when Pastor Pentagon here was going through his confirmation hearing, my opponent Jack Berman saw his ré