Michael Tomasky
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 24
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- Sep 28, 2026
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- Jul 6, 2026
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The Last Recession Wasn’t Trump’s Fault. The Next One Will Be—Utterly. (opens the original)
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About once a month, I go to Google News and type in the single word “recession” just to see what comes up. Most of the time, the headlines are reassuring: “Despite downturn, experts don’t see recession coming”—that sort of thing. Sunday, the headlines read a little differently. “Is the World Staring at a Big Stock Market Crash—and Recession? 5 Uneasy Signs.” “The Fed Just Raised Interest Rates. Recession Is Next.” “Billionaire investor Leon Cooperman sees a recession in 2027 and a stock drop ahe
A “Bloodbath” Will Only Make Donald Trump More Corrupt and Lawless (opens the original)
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It was far from the most important development of the week, but the “deal” the Trump administration struck with Denmark over Greenland was just oh-so-perfectly-emblematic of virtually everything Donald Trump does. He and his people of course touted it as a great triumph that only Trump could have achieved, when in fact it was basically a reiteration, with a few small changes, of the agreement that’s been in place since 1951. For example, one change is that any non-NATO military presence is now e
Democracy May Survive Trump, but It Looks Like Capitalism Might Not (opens the original)
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It was a surreal week, bursting with surreal news generated by the surreal idiot who sits in the White House, but maybe the most surreal headline of all was the one I saw Thursday morning telling me that Costco was rationing motor oil. The limit they’ve set is very likely more than your average motorist needs, but still. Rationing! Am I in England in the 1950s? And on top of that, the price has nearly doubled since April, to $58 for a 10-quart pack. Or maybe it was the news that diesel had toppe
It’s Not Just Trump Who’s Dumb About Economics—It’s the GOP Generally (opens the original)
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On her Substack over the weekend, Mary Trump, the good Trump (there had to be one), recalled the following word salad her uncle gurgled out on the 2024 campaign trail: Under the Trump economic plan, we will cut your energy prices in half. Mark it down. And you can get very angry at me if we don’t do it. Within 12 months, your energy prices will be cut in half. My plan will cut energy prices in half, or more than that, within 12 months. We will cut energy and electricity prices in half within 12
Was the 9/11-Era GOP So Different From Today’s? Not Different Enough. (opens the original)
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We have trained ourselves to think of Donald Trump as sui generis, an outlier in the history of the American political experience. And of course, in so many ghastly ways, he is. But he arose from somewhere; the instant and fervent attachment of millions of conservatives to his brand of search-and-destroy politics, his disregard for the truth, did not emerge from whole cloth in 2015. It had antecedents. Some thing or things inculcated in the conservative mind a fealty to that brand of relentless
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