Donald Trump’s Economic Warfare Abroad Comes Home
In this episode of The Political Scene from The New Yorker, Jane Mayer, Evan Osnos, and Susan Glasser analyze how Donald Trump’s aggressive use of economic warfare—particularly through tariffs and military action in Iran—has backfired, destabilizing the global economy, weakening U.S.
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