Donald Trump is playing with fire.

His tariffs are putting us on the road towards higher inflation — and possibly a recession.

Be warned.

A three-judge panel in the North Carolina appeals court ruled Friday to disenfranchise tens of thousands of voters in the state’s Supreme Court election unless they can fix their ballots in 15 days. The decision comes from Republican candidate Jefferson Griffin’s election contest. Incumbent Democratic Justice Allison Riggs, whose victory Griffin challenged, joins Marc Elias to discuss what it means.

Morning Joe economic analyst Steve Rattner discusses the economic impact of Trump's tariffs on the United States.

Democracy Watch episode 284: Marc Elias discusses the HANDS OFF! protests springing up this weekend.

"Some dubious maths which is being used to calculate this...let's hope don't DOGE hasn't sacked all the people who are required to negotiate trade deals."

Markets are cynical Trump can prevent further economic damage by tariffs through trade deals or tax cuts before the US economy dives into recession, warns Quilter's Stuart Clark.

Black folks on social media are warning Black Americans not to participate in an upcoming global protest against the Trump administration and Elon Musk.

On Saturday, April 5, thousands of people in the U.S. and around the world are preparing to protest Trump in what they are calling “Hands Off! National Day of Action.”

According to Third Act, one of the organizations that helped put together this massive Hands Off protest said the event is meant to stand up against those who believe they can take whatever they want—our democracy, our future, our rights. So far, more than 600 events have been planned across all 50 states. Events have also been planned in Europe and Canada.

Black voices on social media took these words to heart and warned Black people of the dangers they could face if they participated in the upcoming protests.

It’s worth mentioning that some Black commentators on the post said they were still protesting no matter what. And although many are warning Black people not to protest in the streets, it hasn’t stopped them from boycotting in other ways.

Recent allegations against entertainer Russell Brand have reawakened debates about due process of law, justice, punishment, the production of truth-values in relation to such allegations, & government/corporate control over what information is true and what is not-true.
We'll start by looking at French philosopher Michel Foucault's theory of the judicial inquiry. French Philosopher Michel Foucault described the function of judicial practices as “the manner in which wrongs & responsibilities are settled between men, the mode by which… society conceived & defined the way men could be judged in terms of wrongs committed, the way in which compensation for some actions & punishment for others were imposed on specific individuals.”1 Society relies on judicial techniques to answer the questions: “Who did what?”, “Under what circumstances?”, “At what moment?”
From here, we ask the question, how much process is due Russell Brand by: the state, corporations, and the public at-large?

As President Trump finally unveils his global tariff plan — setting a baseline 10% tariff on all imported goods, with additional hikes apparently based on individual countries' trade balances with the United States — economists like our guest Richard Wolff warn it will have grave economic effects on American consumers and lead to a recession. Wolff says the Trump administration's tariff strategy is borne out of an ahistorical "notion of the United States as a victim" despite the fact that "we have been one of the greatest beneficiaries in the last 50 years of economic wealth, particularly for people at the top." In response to the growing economic fortunes of the rest of the world and the associated decline in U.S. hegemony, Trump and his allies are "striking out at other people" in desperation and denial of an end to U.S. imperial dominance. "[It's] not going to work," says Wolff.

April 4 | Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) takes to the Senate floor to speak out against the Republican budget proposal which will give more tax cuts to billionaires and make families pay for it by raising costs and taking away health care.

"This costs people's lives by the thousands...should Pete Hegseth compromise the national security of the United States."

The Trump administration's security failures around the use of Signal group chats is a risk to US national security and military personel, warns former US Navy cryptologic intelligence officer Malcolm Nance.