A Real Liberation Day, a message from a saner nation, by Paul Krugman, Apr 25

Finished today’s travel and arrived to find the locals setting up to celebrate Liberation Day. In a saner nation than mine, that means the day they overthrew fascism, not the day they imposed crazy tariffs.

I first visited Portugal almost 50 years ago, working at the Banco de Portugal for three months. Back then many people wondered whether their two-year-old democracy would survive. It has. And these days I, like millions of others, wonder whether democracy will survive in America.