Standing tall

Trump’s cult of ignorance undermines policy at home

Watching a video of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet members lavishly praising him a week ago reminded me of the effusive earnestness of former Soviet politburo members toward their communist...

RFK Jr. struggles to navigate frustrated supporters

After the Senate voted to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary, supporters of his “Make America Healthy Again” movement cheered at having a champion...

A trial 300 years ago tells about Trump’s media lawsuits

President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against CBS News reminded me of a famous legal case that I teach my journalism students each semester at Boise State University. It’s known as...

Boeing 737 MAX first victim of US-China tariff wars

The first major fallout of the tariff war set off by US President Donald Trump, and the retaliatory tariffs by countries like China, was played out. A Boeing 737...

Trust in America virtually zero over Iran nuclear deal talks

The situation in this region might have been very different if during his first term in office Donald Trump had not withdrawn the US from the 2015 six-party deal...

The US has Greenland (and foreign policy) exactly upside down

If you’re sitting in Copenhagen or Nuuk and looking for bespoke lessons from the trade war that President Donald Trump just declared on the world, here are two. First,...

Hard work for Harvard

Busy US earnings week confronts market grappling with tariff woes

A heavy slate of US company results in the coming week will test a stock market shaken by a US trade policy overhaul that upended the outlook for the...

US airlines struggle to forecast their businesses in economic fog

President Donald Trump’s trade war has created the biggest uncertainty for US airlines since the COVID pandemic. With little clarity on how consumers will behave in the face of...