Good morning. Senator Darline Graham, who filled the seat of her brother, Lindsey Graham, after his death, won the Republican Senate nomination in South Carolina. President Trump had backed her. And there’s more below, including our obituary of Dolly Parton and an accounting of 15 of her best songs. I’m going to start, though, with the president.
Pushing backPresident Trump’s usual playbook — make demands, threaten Armageddon, force capitulation — is not working. Canada said yesterday that it would impose tariffs as high as 50 percent on hundreds of American products, after the United States imposed its own levies on Canadian goods. The prime minister walked away from trade talks last week, and The Times chronicled how Canadians had his back. “We’re standing our ground not to be bullied on the world stage and pushed around,” a shop owner in Manitoba told our reporter. In Washington, congressional Republicans who have usually deferred to Trump blasted him for raising imports of ground beef. It may bring the price of a burger down before the midterm elections. But legislators warn it would be at the expense of American ranchers, and that’s intolerable. “Americans want U.S. beef on the table — not foreign imports,” Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming said in a statement. Peter Baker, who covers the Trump presidency, continues the list of defiance: European leaders have refused to join his war with Iran. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel flatly rejected his Gaza plan. Gulf Arab states forced him to abandon plans to charge a shipping toll in the Strait of Hormuz. Universities and law firms are rebuffing his directives rather than signing on the bottom line. Bond markets are rebelling against his fiscal policies. Even the ABC network, whose $16 million payment to settle a Trump lawsuit was seen as an early example of yielding to the president, has discovered that it did not buy peace and is now suing his administration for threatening its broadcast licenses. None of which means Trump should be underestimated, Peter warns. His polls may be low, and the influence of his political endorsements may have slipped, but Trump’s still powerful. The Supreme Court’s generally kind to him. He was able to get Todd Blanche confirmed as attorney general. Darline Graham is the Republican nominee for Senate in South Carolina. He posts on social media, and markets move. Still, the resistance is real. “Last spring, I warned that America is trying to break us so they can own us, and I promised that ‘That will never, ever happen,’” Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, said on Saturday, after abandoning the trade talks. “We are keeping that promise.” But wait a minute. Didn’t the Supreme Court say Trump’s tariffs were illegal anyway? Alisha Anderko, a Morning reader from Pittsburgh, wrote in with a smart question: “So how can he enact a new 50 percent tariff on certain Canadian goods?” Ana Swanson, who covers trade, was game to answer: The Supreme Court did overturn Trump’s use of one law to impose global tariffs, an international emergency law. But other laws give him the power to issue tariffs, including Section 338, the provision he used for the Canada tariffs. It’s nearly 100 years old, and it lets the president impose levies in response to discriminatory trade practices. But it’s very likely to face court challenges in the coming weeks, and it’s unclear whether it will survive. Before we get to the rest of the news, I’ve got a service announcement: If you’re not a subscriber, you can now explore all of The Times’s journalism without any paywalls, for a month, just by downloading The New York Times app. And if you already are a subscriber? Thank you. Subscriptions make this whole program possible.
Dolly Parton’s life was the stuff of fable, from her hardscrabble beginnings in Appalachia — her family was so poor that her father paid the doctor who attended her birth with a sack of cornmeal — to her glittering stardom. She was the top-ranking female singer on country radio from 1967 to 1993, with a total of 25 No. 1 country singles, and she earned entry into both the country music and the rock ’n’ roll halls of fame. Parton cannily exploited rural stereotypes and kitsch to fashion a down-home chic entirely her own. “I’ve created this and played it up — the makeup, the whole persona,” she told The Times in 2002. “But this isn’t all I am,” she added. “It’s not even most of what I am. Hopefully people can see beneath the hair to know there’s a brain, beneath the boobs to know there’s a heart, and behind all the other stuff to know there’s some talent.” She died at 80 after a cancer diagnosis. Read her obituary. For more
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