Author: Tiana Lowe Doescher

After months of late-night threats, offline and online backchanneling, and eleventh-hour temporary reprieves, President Donald Trump has finally enacted 25% tariffs on imports from our two top trading partners, Mexico and China. In the process, Trump has made the highest-stakes gamble on his presidency, first and second terms. Trump retroactively paused tariffs on specific auto…

The broader job market has remained largely robust amid the Federal Reserve‘s monetary tightening, but you wouldn’t know it if you looked only at the latest headlines about the news media. MSNBC recently fired nearly 100 staffers across nine different shows, including progressive panjandrum Joy Reid, after CNN announced in January that it would cut…

Albania’s Sali Berisha is the charismatic champion of his country’s conservative opposition to an aging elite that holds power. Former President Joe Biden, while still in office, tried to get him sentenced to prison for the remainder of his natural life. Biden was helped by ideological left-wing prosecutors bankrolled by billionaire George Soros. Berisha is…

It’s pointless to rehash whether Donald Trump should be taken seriously or literally. Particularly when it comes to the former and future president’s economic policies. Rather, Trump’s words are best understood through a prism of the broader story about the markets and the broader U.S. economy. The Republican may toss out contradictory policy proposals, seemingly…

Tradwives, “stay-at-home-girlfriends,” and even bargain barrel feminists who bray on about the burden of “emotional labor.” These groups of young women each reject employment as antithetical to the feminine disposition, though for starkly different reasons. Here’s why they’re all wrong. They all forget that women have always worked for pay. Neither capitalism nor feminism are…

A decade into its run, when most reality TV series have either died an ignoble death or are simply awaiting the axe of cancellation, Bravo’s Vanderpump Rules stumbled upon a late-career renaissance. When TMZ broke the news that the show’s leading lad, Tom Sandoval, was carrying on an affair with the best friend of his…

Kamala Harris’s team repeatedly warned the public that her supposedly deadlocked presidential contest against Donald Trump would last for days. In the end, the former Republican president secured his victory over the Democratic vice president not seven full hours after the polls closed on most of the East Coast. By the morning it was clear…

In July of last year, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office triggered panic when it warned that projected payments on interest on the national debt would outpace defense spending, as well as nondefense discretionary spending. And that interest payment would outpace Medicare spending by 2046. Just 14 months later, the cost of interest on our $35…

In the final weeks leading up to Election Day, most presidential nominees hope to be comfortably campaigning to the center of undecided and lower-propensity voters. Alas, the Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, is stuck trying to stop record bleeding among her base. Despite promising voters a cornucopia of continued free (read: taxpayer-funded) credits…

While President Joe Biden gave Vice President Kamala Harris a short enough campaign season for her to evade any real scrutiny from Democratic hagiographers in the media, Harris could theoretically pull from her prior failed 2020 presidential bid to fill up her currently non-existent slate of policy proposals. But even as Harris pretends she never…