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Economic Nationalism

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Free Trade

Josh Hawley's Latest Plan To Hike Tariffs Would Be a Win for China

Shutting down the GSP program would reduce economic growth in developing countries and raise taxes on American importers.

Eric Boehm | 12.16.2020 11:40 AM

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Economic Nationalism

Peter Navarro's No-Good Economic Nationalism 

Navarro is the missing link between the democratic socialists on the left and the economic nationalists on the right.

Eric Boehm | 11.8.2020 6:00 AM

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Free Trade

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.

Eric Boehm | 8.28.2020 2:55 PM

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Free Trade

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.

Eric Boehm | 8.18.2020 2:40 PM

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Economic Nationalism

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.

Eric Boehm | 8.5.2020 5:05 PM

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Free Trade

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.

Eric Boehm | 6.3.2020 3:10 PM

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Reason Roundup

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…

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 5.28.2020 10:41 AM

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Free Trade

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.

Eric Boehm | 5.22.2020 1:30 PM

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Coronavirus

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.

Eric Boehm | 4.6.2020 10:45 AM

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Populism

The Decade Populism Went Mainstream

Roughly five times as many people live under populist governments now compared to 10 years ago.

Matt Welch | 12.11.2019 11:04 AM

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Do We Need a World Data Organization?

Democratic presidential hopeful Andrew Yang thinks so.

Ronald Bailey | 11.22.2019 1:45 PM

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Economic Nationalism

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.

J.D. Tuccille | 8.29.2019 3:30 PM

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Free Trade

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.

Eric Boehm | 8.23.2019 4:20 PM

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Economic Nationalism

Conservative Nationalists, Not Immigrants, Are Having Trouble Assimilating in America

Their orgy of statism is un-American.

Shikha Dalmia | 7.26.2019 10:30 AM

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Nationalism

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.

Stephanie Slade | 7.18.2019 9:45 AM

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Policy

Are Free Trade's Best Days Behind Us?

Simon Lester | 7.11.2019 6:00 AM

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4th of July

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.

Eric Boehm | 7.4.2019 6:46 AM

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Freedom

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.

Steven Greenhut | 6.14.2019 8:00 AM

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'Trade Wars' Don't Put Americans First

You cannot advocate trade restrictions without also advocating state-bestowed privilege.

Sheldon Richman | 3.11.2018 8:00 AM

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Globalization

Libertarian Globalism Versus Economic Nationalism

What Donald Trump and his posse of economic nationalists get wrong.

Ronald Bailey | 10.5.2017 9:30 AM

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