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DE RUGY: Will Republicans own the brewing budget calamity?

The federal budget remains a disaster, and for all the splashy talk of cost-cutting and tariff-driven revenue, Americans know it. Especially galling is that the latest fiscal wreckage is being overseen by an administration that promised business acumen and conservative restraint. Republicans ...

HARROP: From the people’s business to family business

Donald Trump's defenders have taken great offense to suspicions by Democrats and others that the Trump family and its close circle are doing insider trading to profit from market convulsions. There's no "proof," they say. It's true that there's been no proof so far, but there's surely enough ...

GARVEY: How to meditate – for the chronically anxious

Mindfulness meditation: It's all the rage. If you've been anywhere, talked to anyone or visited any social media site, you've likely heard about some of the positive effects of mindfulness meditation — how it can help with a wide variety of problems like depression, stress, insomnia, high ...

SHAPIRO: Trump’s reality-driven U-turn

President Donald Trump did what he had to do. Last week, Trump dropped an economic neutron bomb by declaring tariffs on virtually every country on the planet — tariffs based not on reciprocal tariff rates, but on trade deficits. After an initial stock dump of approximately 10% and then days ...

BARONE: Will Trump’s tariffs move us back to the constitutional order?

It has been hard this past week, of tariffs applied worldwide on April 2 to tariffs suspended except for China on April 9, to avoid reflecting on how much trouble could have been avoided if economists, instead of talking about countries' trade surpluses and trade deficits, had devised different ...