President Donald Trump's tariff push needs far better support from White House staff, we say.

The list of other nations’ “tariffs” on American products boiled down to this formula: US imports minus exports to a given country, divided by imports, then divided by two.

The president needs to take stock of his overall team, and make sure they’re all working to land this plane.

President Trump has mixed signals regarding the precise goals of tariffs, says Julian Zelizer .

Zelizer: Tariffs are confusing to observers, but perhaps not as confusing as tariffs seem to be to the president, his team, and proponents of tariffs.

He asks: Is it to curtail imports to protect American businesses from foreign competition? Or is it to raise significant revenue for Uncle Sam ? These two goals work against each other.

Mark Hendrickson : Higher prices will be no more popular under President Donald Trump than they were under President Joe Biden .

He says tariffs do not reduce unemployment, but rather, they redistribute it, and frequently increase unemployment on an overall basis.

The best way for the federal government to “protect” American industry is to not cripple American businesses with harmful policies, he says.

The only true "liberation" will be us being liberated from even more of our hard-earned income, says CREW 's John Avlon .

Avlon: Whatever the Trump team collects from foreign imports will be shifted back to us in the form of higher prices.

He says the administration is already preparing for economic damage control with emergency aid for U.S. farmers.

The administration will blow another gaping hole in the federal budget with bailout money to compensate the victims, he says.

China ’s Ministry of Commerce condemned U.S. President Donald Trump 's steep new tariffs, calling them unilateral bullying’ The tariffs, which include a 34% levy on Chinese goods, are seen as the most significant tariff hikes in a century .

Experts say both sides will eventually return to the negotiating table to reach a broader deal.

On Wednesday, the president announced a baseline 10 percent tariff on products from 180 nations, including higher rates for certain countries the president considers bad actors.

Julian Zelizer: The tariffs will negatively affect the agricultural sector, which relies heavily on trade.

Zelizer says tariffs will increase production costs and the price of fertilizer, which is one of the largest expenses involved in farming.

Mastercard will no longer make marketing or branding decisions based on third-party views.

The credit card giant was a major part of a global network of companies that cracked down on conservative speech in the name of so-called misinformation.

A group of investors representing the Alliance Defending Freedom were prepping a resolution targeting Mastercard over its involvement with the Global Alliance for Responsible Media or GARM.

GARM targeted podcasters like Joe Rogan, platforms like Elon Musk’s X, and conservative outlets like The Daily Wire.

President Donald Trump imposed universal tariffs that he calls reciprocal, supposedly based on the amount each country tariffs our imports.

Vietnamese imports will now be hit with a 46 percent tariff; E.U. goods face a 20 percent one, Japanese goods a 24 percent one.

Some Twitter sleuths have discovered that those countries aren't in fact levying such high rates on us.

The tariffs cannot cultivate domestic manufacturing, because they were made to be contingent, temporary, negotiable.

Watch this explosive, highly contentious episode of Just Asking Questions with Batya Ungar-Sargon on tariffs and deportations.

Amazon has submitted a bid to purchase TikTok from its Chinese parent company, Byte Dance .

The administration is not seriously considering the offer, though, for reasons unclear.

Thor Hanson is a biologist and author whose books include Triumph and Close to Home.

He says US senators and members of Congress provided vast numbers of seeds to constituents from 1862 until 1923 .

At its peak, the congressional seed distribution program delivered over 60 m seed packets to farmers and market gardeners every year .

Dear Good Job: My co-workers kind of hate me.

They don't speak to me unless absolutely required.

They feel like I brought too much attention to the department.

Keep CCing your boss on emails- it’s good practice to keep a paper trail when there are workplace problems because you never know how they could explode.

Dear Good Job: How do I handle my boss’s condescension and focus some of her attention on my positive strengths and successes? She is blunt, harsh, and unprofessional when she delivers her criticisms.

If she won't stop asking for your daily report, you may need to be more direct: "Listen, it's great to see you and I appreciate your help, but I’ve got this".

During the pandemic, I (45/F) used my savings to move to a rural property and live out a dream I’ve always had about having a small hobby farm.

My sister asked if she, her husband, and their children could come and stay with me for a week .

But all four of them were incredibly disappointed when they arrived.

Andrew Rabinowitz was representing a property management company owned by the family of Jared Kushner , President Trump 's son-in-law.

He was representing the Kushner Companies , which owns many large apartment complexes in the Baltimore area.

The next time I saw him in court was in February , almost eight years later , he was defending tenants.

I tracked him down at the Landlord and Tenant Branch of the District of Columbia Courts .

ProPublica 's John Sutter : Rabinowitz worked as a tenant's attorney in Baltimore , Maryland .

He says he prided himself on getting landlords to accept less than what they believed they were owed and working out payment plans with tenants.

He left after a couple years for a small defense practice because he wanted to pursue his original aspiration.

Sutter says he had no feelings for the Kushner company or any other company.

Lawyer Drew Rabinowitz says he did not regret his years working for the Kushners and other landlords.

He was almost always facing off against people who lacked their own attorney.