Americans Paid $7.6 Billion in Tariffs During August, a New Monthly Record
The trade deficit is now the widest on record too.
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Tariffs on Chinese Imports Have Accomplished Approximately Nothing
A new study shows that former President Donald Trump's tariffs did little to push American companies out of China.
Excessive Bureaucracy Is Making America's Broken Immigration System Worse
A new Government Accountability Office report offers a useful lesson about the often unseen, human costs of making forms more difficult to fill out.
The Eastman Memo: Poor Lawyering for a Disreputable Cause (Updated)
An audacious last-minute attempt to undo the results of the 2020 election.
Did the Supreme Court's DACA Decision Lead to the Biden Administration's "Remain in Mexico" Defeat?
Professors Zachary Price and Benjamin Eidelson offer competing takes.
Supreme Court Concludes Trump "Remain in Mexico" Policy Must Remain in Place
The Biden Administration suffers a significant loss on the Supreme Court's "shadow docket."
State Governments Didn't Need Coronavirus Bailouts. They Got Billions of Dollars Anyway.
As it turns out, state and local tax revenues hardly collapsed.
More Than 53,000 American Companies Sought Exemptions From Trump's China Tariffs. Almost All Were Denied.
New GAO report says the process for determining which companies could avoid paying those tariffs was rife with "inconsistencies" and poorly documented decision-making.
CDC Extends Trump-Era Migrant Expulsion Policy, Citing Delta Variant
Plus: Enough about FOSTA's "unintended" consequences, another blow to the FTC's Facebook case, and more...
Trump Slashed Regulations That Stopped Americans From Having a Good Shower. Biden Is Bringing Them Back.
Environmentalists criticized Trump's reforms for wasting water, while showerhead manufacturers worried the deregulation would subject them to more foreign competition.
You Can Now Read the Secret Trump Administration Report That Claimed Your Toyota Is a National Security Threat
The never-released Trump administration report is a reminder that "national security" is usually a bogus reason to impose tariffs
When Barr Broke with Trump
An interesting report by Jonathan Karl on how and when AG William Barr rejected President Trump's absurd election fraud claims.
Biden Keeps Another Trump Border Policy in Place
Title 42 prevents migrants from legally seeking asylum in the United States.
Apple Surrendered Former White House Counsel Don McGahn's Account Information to Trump DOJ
Plus: Rep. Joaquin Castro wants Hollywood to hire more Hispanics...or else, lawmakers inch closer to an infrastructure deal, and more...
The Bipartisan Antitrust Crusade Against Big Tech
How reactionary politicians are using monopoly concerns as cover to pursue pre-existing political agendas
Lumber Is Crazy Expensive Right Now. Biden Is About To Make It Worse.
The Commerce Department is planning to hike tariffs on Canadian lumber from about 9 percent to more than 18 percent.
China Is Paying Less Than 8 Percent of Tariff Costs. Americans Are Paying the Rest.
American consumers are bearing nearly 93 percent of the costs of the tariffs applied to Chinese goods, according to Moody's Investors Service.
Trump's Trade War With Europe Is Biden's Trade War Now
Monday's announcement of a truce in the conflict is good. Peace would be better. Biden should drop Trump's steel tariffs.
More Than 300 Manufacturers Just Asked Biden To Repeal Trump's Steel Tariffs as Prices Skyrocket
Trump imposed huge tariffs on imported steel and Biden is keeping them in place even as American businesses beg for relief.
Americans Oppose Deportations, Remain Skeptical About Asylum Seekers
Plus: SPCA sues for First Amendment rights of pet owners and veterinarians, an epic antitrust battle between Apple and Fortnite's parent company begins, and more...
Most Americans Favor a 'Pathway to Citizenship' for Undocumented Immigrants
55 percent of Americans say they favor providing a "pathway to citizenship" for undocumented immigrants and 56 percent say that simplifying the process for legal immigration is the best way to reduce illegal immigration.
Supreme Court Refuses to Intervene in "Public Charge" Case -- For Now
The Biden Administration's effort to moot challenges to the Trump Administration's "public charge" rule scores an initial (yet potentially temporary) victory.
HHS Blames Trump Policy for 180,000 Unplanned Pregnancies
Plus: Clarity on Adam Toledo's death, Big Tech antitrust bill approved by House Democrats, and more...
Immigration Politics Are Killing the Debate Over Immigration Policy
The latest crisis at America's southern border isn't the result of short-term policy changes but of long-term bureaucratic failures.
If You Like Tariffs, You Should Have Cheered the Clogged Suez Canal
Disruptions to trade are bad for the world, whether you can see them or not.
Immigration, Trade, and Narrative-Warping
Why border activity doesn't look that much different under the Biden administration, and how the media framed the Atlanta shootings
Biden, Democrats Are Locking in Trump's Tariffs
Rather than undoing Trump's disastrous trade policies, Democrats in the White House and Congress appear to be entrenching the tariffs as a key part of U.S. trade policy.
Joe Biden Offers Bold Talk, Timid Action on Immigration
He campaigned against Trump’s restrictionism, but has implemented mostly symbolic initiatives so far.
The Trade War Drove American Automaking Jobs to China as Tariffs Stalled U.S. Exports
Further evidence that tariffs simply don't make sense as trade policy. President Joe Biden should take note.
Civil Liberties Groups Plead With Biden To Stop Persecuting Julian Assange
Plus: Oklahoma cosmetologists fight insane licensing requirement, Australia doesn't understand how search engines work, and more...
America Will Welcome More Refugees as Biden Lifts Trump's Misguided Restrictions
The United States will accept 125,000 refugees in the fiscal year that begins on October 1, up from the current record low level of 15,000 set by the Trump administration.
Does America Really Need the Foreign Agents Registration Act?
The U.S. has an interest in protecting its political system from manipulation by foreign enemies or their paid agents. But treason and espionage are already illegal, as is bribery.
How the CDC Bungled Testing of Early COVID-19 Quarantine Patients
Plus: Commemorating the first U.S. sex worker protest, why Parler is a success story for Section 230, and more...
Will Democrats Learn to Love the Congressional Review Act?
The CRA may offer Democrats a quick and easy way to repeal Trump Administration regulations, if they are willing to use it.
'No Book Deals for Traitors'
Publishing in the post-Trump era is going to involve a lot of score-settling.
Biden Issues At Least 15 Executive Orders and Actions on Day One
Plus: Columbia University neuroscientist defends heroin use, Cuomo plan would still criminalize growing or delivering marijuana, and more...
Lil Wayne, Steve Bannon, and Some Drug War Victims Pardoned, but No Assange, Snowden, or Ulbricht
Plus: Pelosi wants 9/11-style commission to investigate Capitol attack, MyPillow drama, and more...
Trump Promised a 'Good and Easy To Win' Trade War, Then Lost It
Five reasons why Trump's trade war didn't go the way he thought it would.
Dysfunctional and Disorderly at Home, the U.S. Must Stop Meddling Abroad
Our own house is not in order, and Washington has no business policing the world or forcibly remaking other countries in its own image.
The Media Failed by Giving People What They Want
Whatever lies the press is telling us, they are ones that at least some of us want to hear.
Trump Administration Puts 13th Prisoner to Death as Justice Sotomayor Blasts 'Breakneck Timetable of Executions'
The Department of Justice rushes to prevent mercy before a new administration can take over.
Judge's Stay Halting First Federal Execution of a Woman in 70 Years Has Been Vacated
Lisa Montgomery faces possible execution this evening.
Trump Will Adopt Biden Plan for Speeding Up COVID-19 Vaccinations
Vaccine booster doses currently being reserved will be released immediately to inoculate more Americans.
Millions of Users Are Flooding Encrypted Apps After Social Media Purges
Plus: Supreme Court declines more election challenges, Lisa Montgomery gets temporary stay of execution, and more...
Embattled Administration Pushes Midnight Controls on Financial Tech
Bureaucracy keeps on regulating through the chaos
FCC Won't Fulfill Trump Order for 'Regulations to Clarify' Section 230
Plus: Trump concedes on reinstated Twitter account, Cabinet resignations keep coming, and more...
Trump Fishes for Votes in Georgia as GOP Senators Fight Over Election Certification
Plus: Victory for sanitizer-making distilleries, Supreme Court to consider student's Snapchat rant, and more...
Trump Wasn't a Dictator, but He Played One on TV
The 45th president busted norms left and right. But the abuse of executive power didn't start and won't end with him.
