Can Anyone Stop Trump's Tariffs?
Plus: A listener asks if it's time for journalists to stop steel-manning Trump's policies.
Plus: A listener asks if it's time for journalists to stop steel-manning Trump's policies.
Members of the administration spent the weekend presenting contradictory defenses of Trump's economic policies.
The president is raising taxes, hiking prices, and creating supply chain chaos. Congress should act quickly to stop this.
Plus: A deportation fight, pussy hats in Maine, antagonizing Brown University, and more...
"Universities were bending over for federal funds long before Trump," writes Laura Kipnis.
Did the 25th president really make America "very rich through tariffs"? William McKinley might have told you otherwise.
Links to all of his posts compiled.
Donald Trump isn't the first president to send detained migrants to the U.S. detention center in Cuba.
Although the president's pride in his negotiation skills could save us, it is hard to see what sort of deal would address his grievance about the consequences of economic freedom.
The lawsuit raises nondelegation and major questions doctrine arguments.
The article covers state sanctuary policies, their constitutional basis, how they can constrain Trump's mass deportation efforts, and how Trump can try to get around them.
With him in charge, it never stood a chance.
The company previously dropped out of the Brazilian market for five years until the country relaxed its tariffs on video games.
Dynamists, protectionists, hawks, and doves are seeing their policy goals realized in the most bungling and incompetent fashion imaginable.
The Supreme Court seems likely to agree that a member of the National Labor Relations Board may be fired by the president at will.
Attempting to defend Trump's tariffs, the White House points to studies that show they raise prices, cut manufacturing output, and lead to costly retaliation.
Evan Bernick's fourth in a series of guest-blogging posts on birthright citizenship.
Decades of efficiency mandates have made dishwashers weaker, A.C. units feebler, and appliances more expensive. A new rollback offers a rare win for function over dogma.
Governments should just get out of the way of free trade among consumers and businesses.
Brave New World was shot long before the new Trump term, but the parallels are hard to overlook.
They weren't authorized by Congress and go against the major questions and nondelegation doctrines.
And he did it after Israel dropped all its tariffs on American goods.
A small but growing bipartisan movement in the Senate is pushing back against the president's imposition of tariffs, but there's plenty of room to go further.
The nonsensical list of territories subject to the White House's new "reciprocal" tariffs shows how amateurish the administration's new trade policy is.
What tariffs on Singapore, Brazil, and Vietnam can tell us about how Trump misunderstands the value of trade.
Lower-income families who spend the largest shares of their income on goods—and who have been badly hurt from the recent inflation—will likely suffer the most.
Trump's first trade war cost farmers $27 billion. Losses this time around could be higher.
A new global survey reveals a stark decline in Americans' support for free speech as the Trump administration tightens its grip on expression.
Evan Bernick's third in a series of guest-blogging posts on birthright citizenship.
If tariffs are so great, why has Trump shown a willingness to back down from his threats if other countries agree to certain conditions?
The Trump administration says it is shameful even to suggest that immigration agents could make such errors.
The Liberty Justice Center and I are looking for appropriate plaintiffs to bring this type of case. LJC (a prominent public interest law firm) can represent them pro bono.
Polls of consumers and surveys of business owners suggest the White House has a lot of convincing to do.
The president seems optimistic. It's not clear why.
Taxes on imports cannot possibly deliver all the benefits the president is promising.
People are allegedly being classified as gang members for tattoos of crowns, clocks, and soccer logos.
It's obvious that tariffs will harm American companies that import goods. But the losses don't end there.
Despite efforts to rein in government debt, gold prices keep rising—suggesting investors aren’t buying the promises of fiscal responsibility.
Evan Bernick's second in a series of guest-blogging posts: Part II of a critique of an important defense of the constitutionality of Donald Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship.
The president is arguing in court that journalism he doesn't like is "election interference" that constitutes consumer fraud.
The detention of Tufts graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk illustrates the startling breadth of the authority the secretary of state is invoking.
For an administration that likes to show off successful assassinations, the Trump team has been surprisingly tight-lipped about the Houthi commanders they targeted.
Donald Trump is determined to make everything from Canadian whiskey to Mexican avocados more expensive. Can anyone stop him?
Evan Bernick's first in a series of guest-blogging post: Part I of a critique of an important defense of the constitutionality of Donald Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship.
Bernick is a leading academic expert on the Fourteenth Amendment.
A lawsuit brought by universities could potentially be much more effective than leaving individual students to fend for themselves.
A leading expert on habeas corpus explains why the Trump Administration is wrong to claim the case must be heard in Texas, rather than Washington, DC.
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