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Lessons learned in '70s have made US, world economies less vulnerable to oil shocks

The world economy is experiencing a disorienting flashback to the 1970s

The Independent UK

In New Tariff Cases, Trump Asserts 'Unreviewable' Power To Invent a Balance-of-Payments Deficit

The Court of International Trade is weighing the legality of the import taxes that the president wants to impose under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974.

Reason

A coalition under constant strain

Congressional Republicans are praising the president publicly, and screaming into their pillows privately

Salon

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Trump may be using Nixon’s ‘madman theory’ – and similar infamy may await

Nixon’s Vietnam strategy appears at play in Trump’s Iran threats, but he may want to ponder the ex-president’s fate

The Guardian - US

Iran‑US ceasefire: Did Trump’s 'Madman Theory' trick Tehran into a pause?

In a dramatic turn, President Trump declared a two-week ceasefire with Iran, averting a major escalation. Following days of intense threats and missile exchanges, the move reopened the Strait of Hormuz, calming global markets. Experts debate whether this is a strategic pause or a calculated application of the 'Madman Theory'…

The Times of India

Two Trump moves last week could kill off future accountability for his deeds

The Trump ‘library’ and an attack on the Presidential Records Act have more in common than it might seem

The Guardian - US

Artemis II astronauts silently side-eye each other after being subjected to inane Trump ramble about Wayne Gretzky

Just smile and nod and wait for him to finish burbling.

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All The President’s Men at 50: one of the finest films about investigative journalism ever made

Nighttime. A dim and dingy car park. Woefully inadequate fluorescent lights flicker and buzz overhead. Two men stand in half-shadow. One is barely visible, his face almost entirely swallowed by darkness. His voice is low and gravelly:

The Conversation

What’s the 25th Amendment and how many times has it been used?

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The Independent UK

‘I still think it’s one of the great films of all time’: All the President’s Men turns 50

In April 1976, the flawless Watergate film premiered in Washington – cast members and reporters share their memories of ‘the granddaddy of journalism movies’

The Guardian - US

Donald Trump Records Worst Independent Approval Rating Ever, Polling Below Nixon Before Resignation

Explore the unprecedented decline in President Trump's approval ratings among independent voters, surpassing historical lows set by Nixon during Watergate. Discover the factors driving this trend and its implications for his presidency.

International Business Times UK

Artemis 2 astronauts are now headed to the moon. Why has it taken humanity so long to go back?

The Artemis 2 astronauts are the first people to journey toward the moon since 1972. Why has it taken us more than half a century to go back?

Space

The anti-Maga talkshow: after 70 years, PBS’s The Open Mind still has it

For decades, the TV programme has made a quiet case for depth, civility and political conversation that doesn’t insult your intelligence

The Guardian - US

CNN’s data guru says Trump’s approval rating is ‘as low as Death Valley’

President’s net approval rating with independents at this point in his second term is lower than the approval ratings for both Richard Nixon and George W Bush during the same period of their second terms

The Independent UK

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The Conversation

How California’s war on smog and its ambitious car pollution rules made everyone’s air cleaner

Cars on the road today are 99% cleaner than they were in 1970. Air quality in the United States is much, much better as a result. In Los Angeles, where I live, lead levels in the air were 50 times higher in the 1970s than today, and the amount of…

The Guardian - US

Trump’s Iran war is holding him hostage

If there is any consistency to Trump’s policy, it is a series of frantic attempts to justify his original blunder and extricate himself from its dire consequences

Roll Call

‘Impulsive and emotional’: Trump tosses traditional wartime presidency blueprint

President Donald Trump has thrown out the blueprint for the wartime American presidency — and it has hindered his management of the Iran conflict, former officials and analysts said. Those experts said this week that where previous U.S. commanders in chief have sought to portray a steel will and generals-based…

Reason

The Iran War Has Already Hurt Oil Production More Than the '70s Energy Crisis Did

The conflict is squeezing global supply and pushing prices up.

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Iran, the $39 trillion national debt and dedollarization: How Trump exposed America's Achilles Heel in Hormuz

With the national debt at $39 trillion and dollar dominance already at a 30-year low, the petrodollar system is more visible—and threatened—than ever.

The Guardian - US

Want to understand why Trump is still bombing Iran? Look to Nixon and Vietnam

Richard Nixon’s strategy was about shielding his own reputation. Now Trump needs a face-saving exit of his own

The Independent UK

Watergate journalist Bob Woodward to lift lid on Washington secrets in new memoir

‘Woodward has kept notes, transcripts and files of all of his interviews with the most important players in Washington,’ says publisher Simon & Schuster

The Independent UK

Trump tours Graceland and professes love for Elvis but seems stumped when asked his favorite song by The King

At Graceland, Trump asked reporters if they had a question for him about the late singer, and was inevitably quizzed on his favorite Elvis Presley track

The Conversation

Vietnam ruined Lyndon B. Johnson’s political career. Will Donald Trump face the same fate over Iran?

Is United States President Donald Trump lurching toward decline and fall? Will he and his MAGA movement reprise Lyndon B. Johnson’s story, when the quagmire of the Vietnam War took the Democratic president out of the 1968 election and gave Republican Richard Nixon the opening he needed to defeat the…

The Conversation

Trump’s war language is aggressive and extreme. It also offers some insight into his thinking

US President Donald Trump speaks in a way unlike any of his predecessors. His distinctive and highly recognisable style may even play a role in his appeal to his political base. Since the infamous Access Hollywood tapes, he has got away with saying things none of his predecessors would have…

Salon

Trump's Strait of Hormuz problem

Oil prices surge as the Trump administration shows no clear plan for the world’s most critical shipping lane

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