John Cassidy

After Zohran Mamdani’s victory, Republicans are fearmongering about Democrats turning socialist. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is busy taking stakes in private companies and ordering them around.

A noted Harvard economist presents an optimistic vision of a world after Donald Trump.

Donald Trump’s grant of clemency to the founder of Binance, Changpeng Zhao, shows how the checks on Presidential power are failing.

After promising to end foreign entanglements, the President has proposed a financial-rescue plan for the right-wing government of Argentina.

As some financial leaders fret publicly about the stock market falling to earth, Andrew Ross Sorkin’s new book recounts the greatest crash of them all.

Wall Street is celebrating the White House’s deal with Pfizer on drug prices. Patients shouldn’t be.

The sale demonstrates the President’s personal brand of industrial policy—transactional, opaque, and designed to politically benefit him and his allies.

From Disney’s capitulation on Jimmy Kimmel to tech moguls’ White House dinner, corporate élites are choosing self-preservation over principle.

Some central-bank veterans are concerned about a scenario in which the President’s appointees gain effective control of the institution and end its independence.

A dismal jobs report affirms earlier warnings about the economic impact of Donald Trump’s tariffs, immigration restrictions, and DOGE-led firings.