Michael Hiltzik

From Mr. Mulliner to Bertie and Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse’s creations make me laugh out loud. In today’s world, that’s gold

Boeing already was suffering in its competition with Airbus before Trump started his tariff war. That won’t make things any easier for America’s top export company.

Trump administration declared 6,300 living people to be dead, in a dystopian attack on Social Security. ‘If they can do this to somebody, they can do it to anybody.’

Trump’s abrupt reversal on tariffs still leaves international trade policy in chaos.

Billionaires who backed Trump in the election are freaking out over his tariffs, but so far he isn’t following their advice.

In many previous downturns, it was easier to base one’s view of the future on stock market patterns of the past. Not this time.

Republicans and conservatives deployed nationwide injunctions to block Biden policies. Now that they’re used against Trump, they think they’re bad.

Greenland and Canada have much better social policies, and fewer crackpot politicians, than the U.S. Maybe they know something we don’t know.

The claim of a link between vaccines and autism has been decisively debunked. Why has RFK Jr. put one of its promoters in charge of investigating it?

After Trump threatened Columbia University with the loss of $400 million in federal funding, the university folded. But Trump’s threat was almost surely illegal.