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US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on June 10, 2025.

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America’s weak strongman

by Timothy Snyder June 11, 2025

Over the past two months, financial investors have hit upon a new trading strategy, based on a simple rule: TACO — Trump Always Chickens Out. America’s president threatens to slap massive import tariffs on friends and foes alike, or to remove the Federal Reserve chair, only to back down when

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Timothy Snyder: Thinking about freedom in wartime Ukraine

by Timothy Snyder September 5, 2024

The following lecture was delivered in March 2023 at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy as part of a benefit conference to raise funds to support public outreach at Kyiv Mohyla Academy. The subject I have chosen for myself is thinking about freedom

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America’s weak strongman

Timothy Snyder: Thinking about freedom in wartime Ukraine

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