In an earlier column, she provided context for the American president’s beef with her country: “It’s worth rewinding your brain to the basic fact that as Mr. Trump whines and rails constantly about how Canada has taken such vicious advantage of the United States, he’s talking about the trade deal he negotiated in his first term. You know, the one he unveiled on a ‘very momentous, historic and joyous occasion’ as ‘the largest, fairest, most balanced and modern trade agreement ever achieved.’ That one.” (Sean Mallen, Toronto, and Peter Schmolka, Ottawa, Ontario, among others)

In The Financial Times, Janan Ganesh beheld a dauntless Trump acolyte: “Who is left of the Trumpsplainers? Who, even after Iran, squints to see order in the bedlam? There is Elbridge Colby, the Pentagon’s policy chief, whose rationalization of his boss’s random doings is creative, as a man who is always spotting faces in clouds is creative.” (Marilyn Pinschmidt, Carrboro, N.C., and Minty Smyth, Tiverton, R.I.)

In The Bulwark. Catherine Rampell interpreted European governments’ recent behavior: “Chatter about reshoring gold reserves from America picked up around Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ in April 2025, when he first began his arterial spray of global tariffs.” She saw parallels in his domestic and foreign indulgences: “It’s not so hard to imagine how the gilding of his office might align with the gelding of our allies.” (Suzanne M. Stiles, Piscataway, N.J., and Josh Kaplan, Minneapolis)

On the MS NOW website, Anne Kim charted the rising price of toilet paper: “It’s a bad sign for the G.O.P. that consumers feel squeezed by their Charmin — instead of vice versa.” (Mark Weinberg, Wilmington, Del.)

In The Times, David French explained some conservative Christians’ worries about what will happen to their daughters in the progressive clutches of an elite university: “They’ll leave home as Laura Ingalls and come back as Lady Gaga.” (Pete Campbell, La Porte, Ind., and Glenn Jarrett, Burlington, Vt., among others)