Trump’s Global Trade Offensive and Its Hidden Calculus

In the spring of 2025, President Donald Trump marked what he called “Liberation Day” with a proclamation that upended the postwar trading order. Tariffs—broad, blunt, and often eye-watering—were slapped on imports from dozens of countries, framed as rectification for decades…

The art of the deal, revisited

History will record that the great dealmaker came to Islamabad, saw, and somehow still managed to tweet about it as a tremendous success. Donald Trump’s much-vaunted diplomatic foray into brokering peace between America and Iran has ended, as so many…