Rachel Maddow's Blog, page 46
August 27, 2025
Trump’s trade war is now having unexpected side effects for online shoppers
President Donald Trump's decision to abruptly end a tariff on cheap imports is causing havoc for American shoppers.
August 26, 2025
This staggering new calculation of Trump's presidential profiteering barely made headlines
Donald Trump and his family made $3.4 billion via White House business, reports the New Yorker. Remember when Clinton and Obama got in trouble for book deals?
New research indicates Trump's war on immigrants has little to do with fighting crime
Immigrants are less likely to commit crimes — and also less likely to be victims of most types of violent crime, according to a new Cato Institute analysis.
First lady Melania Trump launches AI challenge
First lady Melania Trump on Tuesday announced an artificial intelligence contest for K-12 students nationwide.
Trump’s attempt to fire a Federal Reserve governor tests a weird Supreme Court move
President Donald Trump’s attempt to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook could test the Supreme Court’s resolve to protect the independence of the Federal Reserve.
Trump weighs in on Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s engagement at his Cabinet meeting
Taylor Swift has entered her engaged era. Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce popped the question to the Grammy-award winning artist, the pair announced on Instagram on Tuesday.
‘Frog in boiling water’: Nicolle Wallace warns of Trump’s ‘gradual peril’
After Trump threatened to expand his crime crackdown to Chicago and Baltimore, Nicolle Wallace urged Americans to stay alert for a “slow-moving coup."
The Ruth Bader Ginsburg ruling that just helped Trump wasn't made for people like him
A New York appellate court, citing a clause in the Eighth Amendment, struck a $500 million fine against Donald Trump for filing dishonest business records.
In rare triple failure, Jeanine Pirro's office can't convince grand jurors to indict
The bar for securing indictments in criminal cases is relatively low — so low that there’s a saying that prosecutors could indict a ham sandwich.
Trump’s made-up conversation about Maryland Gov. Wes Moore is part of a weird pattern
As Donald Trump boasts about imaginary conversations with Wes Moore and talks about being “the president of Europe,” there's cause for concern.
