Alex Castellanos

1 week ago | thespectator.com | Ella Dorn |Christopher Caldwell |Alex Castellanos |Alexander Larman

For the first half of the 2010s, any teenage girl in her room had a chance of amassing more political influence than a junior government advisor. She could define political terms and concepts, blacklist undesirable elements and argue for a different kind of society. Thousands, sometimes tens of thousands, of other teenage girls would be following her, reading and engaging. These were the days of Tumblr, a youth blogging website that functioned like a dysfunctional think tank.

3 weeks ago | thespectator.com | Will Prescott |Alexander Larman |Alex Castellanos |Michael Evans

Donald Trump thinks “tariff” is the “most beautiful word in the dictionary.” Today is “Liberation Day,” and the US president is holding true to his campaign trail promise to impose tariffs on imports. Cars, steel, and aluminum are expected to be hit with levies of up to 25 percent. A 10 to 20 percent universal tariff on all goods imported into the United States is also said to be on the table. Trump isn’t the first to think tariffs are a secret weapon.