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Tariffs
The Trump White House and the New Opium Wars
The unraveling of U.S.–China economic ties echoes a darker chapter of history, when a trade dispute between the East and the West escalated into the…
Eli Lake
Think You Can Guess Trump’s Next Move? Think Again.
Guessing the president’s next move is an exercise in intellectual humility, writes Matthew Continetti.
Matthew Continetti
China and America Agree: Apple Is Too Big to Fail
The problem with building iPhones in America isn’t that they’d be priced at $3,500 each. It’s that they wouldn’t be built at all.
Patrick McGee
China and America Aren’t Just in a Trade War. It’s a Fight for the 21st Century.
Xi and Trump are now in a zero-sum contest for global supremacy.
Matt Pottinger and Liza Tobin
Wall Street Is Panicking. But Lloyd Blankfein Isn’t Sweating It.
“I think some of these things need to be done. I just don’t think we should risk the kind of chaos that could push us into a recession.” Lloyd Blankfein…
Bari Weiss
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Think Congress Will Stop Trump’s Tariffs? Think Again.
Trump’s tariff edicts are a sign of how far the United States’ political reality has strayed from its constitutional design, writes Chuck Lane.
Charles Lane
Working-Class Americans—Like My Family—Will Be Hit Hardest by Trump’s Tariffs
My hometown was wrecked by deindustrialization. These tariffs will only make things worse.
River Page
Jed Rubenfeld: Are Trump’s Tariffs Legal?
The president’s economic policies could soon be challenged in court. But do the president’s opponents have a chance?
Jed Rubenfeld
Trump Isn’t the First President to Blow Up the Trading System
Can the 47th president avoid the same fate as Richard Nixon?
Matthew Continetti
Tyler Cowen: A Contagion of Uncertainty
Even if the White House ultimately lands on a better policy, this volatility may plunge us into a recession.
Tyler Cowen
Victor Davis Hanson: Donald Trump’s Just Trade War
Ignore the Wall Street hysteria. The president is trying to end a 50-year injustice directed at the U.S.—and to help the most overlooked Americans.
Victor Davis Hanson
Niall Ferguson: Trump’s Tariffs and the End of American Empire
The president stands as much chance of reindustrializing the U.S. as you do of getting your frozen laptop to work by smashing the motherboard with a…
Niall Ferguson
What Do American Steelworkers Think About Trump’s Tariffs?
Big levies on steel exports may be ‘phenomenal’ for the industry, but workers also expect ‘some pain before you have good.’
Ethan Dodd
Garment District Owners: Trump’s Tariffs ‘Going to Be a Killer’
‘The price is going to be so high, it’s not going to be easy to sell to customers. How do you explain a 20 or 30 percent change?’
Olivia Reingold
Tyler Cowen: ‘Liberation Day’ Was Even Worse Than Expected
This is perhaps the worst economic own goal I have seen in my lifetime.
Tyler Cowen
Here Come the Tariffs. The Pain Will Arrive Soon.
Cars will cost more. TVs will cost more. Blue jeans will cost more. Everything will cost more. Is this really how we’re going to revive manufacturing?
Matthew Yglesias
These Canadians Are Ready to Go to War with America
‘Many of us would rather have our eyes spooned out, be thrown in acid, have our heart pulled out of our mouth than have anything to do with the United…
Rupa Subramanya
Christopher Caldwell: Trump Has a Point on Trade. But He Is Losing the Argument.
There’s a legitimate case for tariffs. But the president needs to explain it to the public—in a way that makes great TV.
Christopher Caldwell
Niall Ferguson: A User’s Guide to Wrecking the Global Financial System
Ordinary Americans elected Trump because they expected him to make things better. Did they realize they were getting a reactionary economic project?
Niall Ferguson
Michael Lind: Why Tariffs Are Good
The claim that tariffs are inherently misguided and inevitably harmful does not stand up to scrutiny.
Michael Lind
Erick Erickson: MAGA’s Tariff Talking Points Are Bound to Backfire
Republicans risk repeating Democrats’ mistake—forgetting it’s the economy, stupid.
Erick Erickson
Larry Summers Thinks Trump’s Tariffs Are a Disaster
The former Treasury secretary says: ‘I have never seen as irrational a consequential policy put in place by an American administration.’
Oliver Wiseman
Will Trump’s Tariffs Rob Victory from Canada’s Conservatives?
The patriotic backlash that could save the Liberals.
Rupa Subramanya
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