Park MacDougald

2 weeks ago | tabletmag.com | Park MacDougald

Early Monday, markets appeared to be continuing their rout in response to Donald Trump’s sweeping Liberation Day tariffs. By midmorning, the S&P 500 had posted its worst three-day performance since the “Black Monday” crash of 1987, and both it and the tech-heavy NASDAQ fell into bear-market territory following double-digit declines last week. The carnage was even worse in Asia, where several markets suspended trading Monday morning as massive sell-offs triggered circuit breakers.

2 weeks ago | thedailyscroll.substack.com | Park MacDougald

Early Monday, markets appeared to be continuing their rout in response to Donald Trump’s sweeping Liberation Day tariffs. By midmorning, the S&P 500 had posted its worst three-day performance since the “Black Monday” crash of 1987, and both it and the tech-heavy NASDAQ fell into bear-market territory following double-digit declines last week. The carnage was even worse in Asia, where several markets suspended trading Monday morning as massive sell-offs triggered circuit breakers.

1 month ago | thedailyscroll.substack.com | Park MacDougald

The conflict—feud? standoff?—between the Donald Trump administration and the federal judiciary is heating up. The biggest headlines have come from the dispute over the administration’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged members of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang.

1 month ago | tabletmag.com | Park MacDougald

It gives us no pleasure to report this, but we figured you should hear it from us. Jeffrey Epstein—the late New York financier—was a “Jewish organization of Jewish people working on behalf of Israel and other groups,” including organized crime and elements of the Central Intelligence Agency, to collect blackmail on American politicians and businessmen.

1 month ago | thedailyscroll.substack.com | Park MacDougald

On Saturday, agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a foreign national, recent graduate from a master’s program at Columbia University, and a campus leader of Columbia University Apartheid Divest, the successor organization to the banned chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine. Khalil, according to reporting from the BBC, is now in an immigrant detention facility in Louisiana.