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1 week ago | 
thedispatch.com | Alex Demas |Scott Lincicome |Nick Catoggio |Abby McCloskey
A growing chorus of Democrats are calling for investigations into allegations of insider trading and market manipulation by White House officials, Republican members of Congress, and friends of the Trump administration. The allegations—which stem from the sudden rise in equity values following President Donald Trump’s announcement of a 90-day tariff pause last week—come from prominent administration critics like Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Rep.
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1 week ago | 
thedispatch.com | David Drucker |John Mccormack |Nick Catoggio |Charles Hilu
Politics The outcome of Ken Paxton’s primary challenge vs. Sen. John Cornyn may answer that question. Published April 16, 2025 Scroll to the comments section Audio versions are only available to subscribers of The Dispatch. Join Today! to listen to this post. Sen.
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1 week ago | 
thedispatch.com | Michael Warren |Nick Catoggio |Greg Lukianoff |Charlotte Lawson
Take a hypothetical walk with me about 18 months into the future to November 3, 2026. Americans (well, likely less than half of the eligible voting population) have just voted in a hard-fought midterm election to determine which party will control the House of Representatives. Despite economic uncertainty and the expectation that the incumbent president’s party typically takes a hit in a midterm, the outcome between Democrats and Republicans is still too close to call.
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1 week ago | 
thedispatch.com | Jonah Goldberg |Steve Larkin |Luis Parrales |Nick Catoggio
The Remnant with Benicio del Toro. Published April 12, 2025 For your Saturday listening pleasure, Jonah Goldberg ruminates upon the latest Dispatch editorial, the sibylian nature of Suicide of the West, the problems with planned economies, and the back-of-house responsibilities of the federal government. Plus: dunce caps for the “deep state” and the font choices of the first Alien movie.
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1 week ago | 
thedispatch.com | Nick Catoggio
Earlier this month, I wrote about Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an immigrant who was granted protected status in the United States yet shipped off anyway to an El Salvadoran dungeon. A lawyer for the government acknowledged that Garcia had been deported in error—and was promptly placed on leave from Donald Trump’s Justice Department for his honesty—but maintained that there’s nothing to be done about it now that he’s in the custody of another country. Yesterday, the Supreme Court knocked that down.
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1 week ago | 
thedispatch.com | John Mccormack |Michael Warren |Nick Catoggio |Kevin Williamson
Policy Why Utah’s senior Republican senator has no plans to reintroduce his bill to reassert congressional authority over tariffs. Published April 11, 2025 Scroll to the comments section Audio versions are only available to subscribers of The Dispatch. Join Today! to listen to this post. On January 20, 2017, Republican Sen.
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1 week ago | 
thedispatch.com | Nick Catoggio |Charlotte Lawson |Charles Hilu |Peter Gattuso
What would happen if it turned out that the president had bought a million dollars worth of call options for the S&P 500 index just before announcing a “pause” on most of his “Liberation Day” tariffs? That’s no idle hypothetical. Some unknown person or persons did buy a bunch of those options on Wednesday about 10 minutes before the White House canceled the global thermonuclear trade war it had just launched.
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2 weeks ago | 
thedispatch.com | Nick Catoggio |Jonah Goldberg |Scott Lincicome |James Sutton
Politics makes strange bedfellows, but not as strange as global economic meltdowns do. “Alliance” is entirely the wrong word to describe what happened over the last week between the president and Never Trumpers like me, but it’s fair to call it an “alignment.” A meeting of the minds, if you will. Trump voters are grousing that this [gesturing at the rubble] isn’t what they voted for.
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2 weeks ago | 
thedispatch.com | Scott Lincicome |Jonah Goldberg |Kevin Williamson |Nick Catoggio
One Wednesday, Donald J. Trump used one of the world’s largest megaphones to announce his bold plan to end vast U.S. trade deficits, lower income taxes, and boost growth by taxing foreign nations that have cheated on trade to enjoy unprecedented surpluses at America’s expense. The year was 1987.
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2 weeks ago | 
thedispatch.com | Jonah Goldberg |Cliff Smith |John Mccormack |Nick Catoggio
That Scott Lincicome is so hot right now! Published April 9, 2025 Scott Lincicome, vice president of general economics at the Cato Institute and a general tariff expert, took some time out of his very busy schedule to talk to Jonah Goldberg about Trump’s trade-deficit delusions,why reciprocal tariffs will harm the United States, and the likelihood of increased inflation as trade tensions rise.
