March 31, 2025 at 12:14 PM EDT
Trump team eyes emergency plan to offset 'financial devastation' for farmers from tariffs: NYT

President Donald Trump has dubbed April 2 "Liberation Day"""the date he'll unveil his sweeping and controversial tariff package""but behind the scenes, White House officials are quietly admitting it could be anything but liberating for America's farmers. Trump's tariffs are expected to cost Americans tens of billions of dollars annually, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The cost to farmers could be "financial devastation," The New York Times reported on Monday. And since the White House is mulling a necessary bailout for the American agricultural industry, the ultimate cost of Trump's tariffs could grow even more expensive.

March 31, 2025 at 10:57 AM EDT
'We're gonna boom': Trump mocks Wall Street's stagflation predictions despite grim data

President Donald Trump's economic policies have already cost him the confidence of a majority of Americans. The stock markets and consumer confidence plunged last week""and the fall continued Monday morning, with markets hitting lows not seen since September. Economic experts are sounding the alarm, warning that inflation and joblessness are set to rise, and demand for goods and services is poised to drop dramatically. All this comes just days before Trump's massive and deeply controversial tariffs package is scheduled to take effect.

March 31, 2025 at 10:47 AM EDT
'The arc of concentration camps is twofold': Experts detail the 'logical endpoint' of MAGA's rhetoric

Critics of President Donald Trump and the far-right MAGA movement have different views on the form that authoritarianism could take in the United States in the years to come. Some fear that the U.S. could emulate the "illiberal democracy" model of Prime Minister Viktor Orba'n in Hungary, where technically, there are still voting rights, but checks and balances are so eroded that the Fidesz Party is entrenched and dominant. Others fear an even more disturbing scenario in which the U.S. embraces an outright military dictatorship like Chile under Gen. Augusto Pinochet or Spain under Gen. Francisco Franco, a.k.a. "El General?simo."

March 31, 2025 at 9:58 AM EDT
How to collapse America from the inside out

If Putin wanted to kill America, how would he best do it? Exactly like this: -- Install a puppet or ally inside the government; as Lincoln foresaw, a tyrant doesn't need to invade. He just needs to rise from within. Trump has repeatedly echoed Kremlin talking points, undermined NATO, attacked Ukraine, praised autocrats, and created chaos at home. If Putin picked a candidate, it would be Trump -- and the intelligence community has confirmed Russian efforts to help him win in both 2016 and 2020.

March 31, 2025 at 9:36 AM EDT
'Revenge': Inside Trump's 'unnerving' plan for 'curtailing freedom of the press'

After The Atlantic published editor Jeffrey Goldberg's bombshell "Signalgate" article on March 24, many national security experts described Goldberg's revelation as a wake-up call. Goldberg revealed that National Security Director Michael Waltz had wrongly invited him to a group chat on the messaging app Signal in which Trump Administration officials -- including Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth -- discussed a military operation against Houthis in Yemen.

March 31, 2025 at 6:12 AM EDT
Musk not only billionaire pumping cash into the most expensive court race in U.S. history

Ten years ago, when Wisconsin lawmakers approved a bill to allow unlimited spending in state elections, only one Republican voted no. "I just thought big money was an evil, a curse on our politics," former state Sen. Robert Cowles said recently of his 2015 decision to buck his party.

March 31, 2025 at 6:06 AM EDT
Trump's vindictiveness never ends

Last week I wrote to you about Trump's crackdown on the pillars of civil society -- the universities, the scientific community, the media, the legal profession, and the arts -- with the clear intent of intimidating them into silence. Today I want to take a deeper dive into what Trump's crackdown on the legal community -- especially large law firms in Washington -- actually means.

March 31, 2025 at 5:59 AM EDT
'Angry across the board': Inside the civil war raging in the Democratic Party

WASHINGTON -- Democratic voters have had enough. Rank and file Democrats are freaking out at the Capitol. Party leaders are looking over their shoulders. Democrats may still be united in their revulsion, anger and fear of President Donald Trump, but since he reentered the White House, the minority party on Capitol Hill has found itself at war with itself.

March 30, 2025 at 2:05 PM EDT
Trump says he's 'not joking' about seeking a third term: 'There are methods which you could do it'

President Donald Trump on Saturday once again floated running for a third term as president, telling NBC News he's "not joking" when he suggests he might run again despite the Constitution's 22nd Amendment that says "no person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice." "A lot of people want me to do it," Trump told NBC News' Kristen Welker on Sunday. "But, I mean, I basically tell them we have a long way to go, you know, it's very early in the administration." Trump added he's "focused on the current" administration. READ MORE: Dem strategist educates CNN conservatives as GOP fears special election in MAGA Florida district According to a transcript of the conversation, Welker gave Trump a scenario where Vice President JD Vance "would run for office" and "if he won, at the top of the ticket, would then pass the baton to [Trump]." "Well, that's one," Trump replied. "But there are others too. There are others." Welker asked Trump if he could "tell [her] another" scenario where Trump could run for and win a third term. "No," Trump replied. "Okay. So, but but sir, I'm hearing -- you don't sound like you're joking. I've heard you joke about this a number of times," Welker said.

March 30, 2025 at 1:42 PM EDT
Dem strategist educates CNN conservatives as GOP fears special election in MAGA Florida district

Chris Meagher, former assistant to the secretary of defense for public affairs and current Democratic political advisor, on Sunday explained the real reason Republicans are defending reliably red districts, telling his conservative CNN colleagues "people are upset" with President Donald Trump's policies. Meagher and a CNN panel were discussing Tuesday's upcoming special election in Florida, where CNN reports Republicans are "alarmed" by tight races in two Florida districts Trump carried "by more than 30 points in November."

March 30, 2025 at 1:29 PM EDT
Trump keeps his promises to voters -- except the economic ones

"When he was campaigning Trump told you he was going to raise tariffs, so he's doing what he campaigned on," is a thing people say. Fair enough.

March 30, 2025 at 12:38 PM EDT
'Giant question mark' over Trump admin's handling of classified information: national security expert

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg on March 27, 2025, ordered top Trump administration officials to preserve records of their messages sent on the messaging app Signal from March 11 to March 15 following a transparency watchdog group's lawsuit alleging that the officials have violated the Federal Records Act. This marked the latest development since The Atlantic on March 24 published a Signal chat among Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other national security officials discussing specific plans to attack Houthi militants in Yemen. Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief at The Atlantic, was mistakenly included in the chat and wrote about what he saw.