Return of the trustbusters

The final days of June last year were a wonderful time for vicarious lovers of bling. On the 22nd, the third season of Julian Fellowes’s lavish TV series, The Gilded Age, dropped on HBO. Just days lat

paulkrugman.substack.com America’s oligarchs have orchestrated an “unprecedented power grab”, says Paul Krugman. Ever since the Supreme Court’s “Citizens United” ruling, which removed all restrictions

At the start of June 2013, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) appeared to be dead in the water. It was almost 18 months since the then European commissioner for justice, Vi

Issue of the week: the return of tariff ...

“The Trump tariffs are dead. Long live the Trump tariffs,” says Roge Karma in The Atlantic. The US Supreme Court has struck down most of Donald Trump’s landmark “liberation day” tariffs, finding that

ONE ICY MORNING IN FEBRUARY, nearly 200 people gathered in a church in downtown Richmond, Va. Most had awakened before dawn and driven in from across the state. There were Republicans and Democrats fr