Bill Grueskin
Journalist, professor. Via Sioux City, Colorado Springs, Palo Alto, Rome, Standing Rock, Baltimore, Miami Herald, WSJ, Bloomberg, Columbia J School.
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- Back-to-back headlines on Washpost homepage tonight
- It’s like Trump used the dinner fork instead of the salad fork.
- On my tombstone, it will be written, "He died with just one wish: that a future generation of journalists would understand the difference between percent and percentage points."
- Excellent NYT graphic. In the space of about 3 months, tariffs on China: -- doubled; -- went up ≈ 2.5X from there; -- roughly doubled again; -- went up ≈ 40% from there; -- and now have dropped ≈ 80% from the peak -- but are still 3X what they were in February. www.nytimes.com/article/trum...
- Beyond the obvious corruption of Trump accepting a luxury jet from the royal family of Qatar, there’s also a clear security risk, as he’d be using this as Air Force One. (Also, uh, “an analysis for Pete Hegseth” …) abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
- From the looks of this, there are four people on the Russian side of the table (including Putin). And there are just two on the American side — an interpreter of unknown provenance, and a golf buddy of Trump’s who has no training or experience in high-stakes diplomacy
- Several Columbia Univ student journalists are suspended after covering protests (while wearing press ID) in the main library. Their access to campus is blocked, and they can't take final exams. Also: Columbia's acting president is a former ABC journalist www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...
- The Art of the (Negotiate-Against-Yourself) Deal
- Learning Resources, the educational toy company, says its $2.3 million annual tariff bill is set to balloon to … … … $100 million. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
- No, this doesn’t smack of desperation at all why do you ask www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
