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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.
There is no policy. No plan. No logic. There is only Donald Trump.
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 think we shouldn’t run the risk of the chaos that would push ourselves into recession.’
Bari Weiss
46M
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.
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
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