Category: Politics, Religion & Money

The symbolism of Trump’s military birthday parade leaves me no longer dismissing the extreme possibility that his plan is to find a way to justify declaring martial law. If he does that, the timing could prevent not only the 2028 presidential election, but the 2026 midterm elections.

… Trump is helping, not hurting, California governor Gavin Newsom. He’s bringing national attention to Newsom, who can exploit that to his advantage in a run for the White House in 2028.

Wall Street has become numb to all of the on-and-off tariff churning, while the jobs and inflation data continue to look good. The immediate loss of immigrant labor could change that in a hurry, but for now the American economy isn’t a mess. That’s assuming Trump’s people aren’t skewing the data.

Austan Goolsbee, of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank, is a reliably informative and engaging economist. How will Goolsby react when Trump starts putting loyalists on the Fed board?

Trump is doing absolutely nothing to put pressure on Putin about Ukraine, but he didn’t hesitate to send Marines against residents of Los Angeles.

Here is a dispassionate discussion and analysis of the situation in Los Angeles. It’s a good example of why Trump wants to cripple PBS.