The Republican Convention's Defense of Trump's Trade War Fell Flat
A Wisconsin business owner who spoke about losing business to China ended up inadvertently undermining the administration's argument for protectionism.
Economic Nationalism
Red-Pilled? Actually Most U.S. Drug Ingredients Are Made Here, Not in China
The Trump administration is spending big money to make sure America's drug supply chains aren't dependent on China. But that's not really necessary.
The Trump Administration's $765 Million Kodak Deal Is More Proof That 'Economic Nationalism' Is a Scam
The Trump administration's "economic nationalist" agenda is little more than a cronyist attempt at propping up domestic companies with taxpayer cash.
The Panic About China Cutting Off America's COVID-19 Drug Supply Was Fake News
The Food and Drug Administration now says there is no evidence that any country attempted to cut off America's essential pharmaceuticals.
Trump's Executive Order on Twitter Is a Total Mess
Plus: the weird new battle lines on warrantless surveillance, more CDC incompetence, Minneapolis on fire, and more…
The Trump Administration Wants To Subsidize Domestic Drug Manufacturing. The First Contract Looks Like a $350 Million Grift.
A member of the five-month-old company's board has been touting bogus stats about America's supposed dependency on Chinese-made drugs.
Why You Shouldn't Trust Anyone Who Claims 80 Percent of America's Drugs Come From China
A misleading statistic has made the rounds. But it’s based on a misreading of a government report that says no such thing.
The Decade Populism Went Mainstream
Roughly five times as many people live under populist governments now compared to 10 years ago.
Do We Need a World Data Organization?
Democratic presidential hopeful Andrew Yang thinks so.
Elizabeth Warren's 'Economic Patriotism' Doubles Down on Bad Policy
Maybe Trump and Warren should team up for their 2020 run to make room on the ballot for better ideas.
As Trade War Escalates, Trump Has Impotently 'Ordered' American Businesses Out of China
Trump's economic nationalism has always been an exercise in petty authoritarianism, and it's increasingly difficult to see it as anything else.
Conservative Nationalists, Not Immigrants, Are Having Trouble Assimilating in America
Their orgy of statism is un-American.
The New Conservative Nationalism Is About Subverting Individual Liberty
If big government is the price of "good outcomes," the American right is increasingly willing to pay it.
Trump's Militarized Fourth of July Parade Makes America Less Great
We're getting a military parade because Donald Trump wants one. The arguments for leaving our tanks at their bases are far more numerous, significant, and powerful.
Rising Conservatives Are as Hostile to Freedom as the Leftists They Disdain
Republicans, who have gleefully warned the public about Democratic flirtations with socialism, shouldn't be quick to gloat given the emergence of an anti-freedom movement on the Right.
'Trade Wars' Don't Put Americans First
You cannot advocate trade restrictions without also advocating state-bestowed privilege.
Libertarian Globalism Versus Economic Nationalism
What Donald Trump and his posse of economic nationalists get wrong.