In 2022, Pay Attention to Right-wing Authoritarianism
At the eve of a new year, it’s traditional to make a resolution or two. I have no such list for myself or others, but I do have a wish. …
Tariffs
Joe Manchin Drives Final Nail Into Doomed ‘Build Back Better’ Plan. For Now.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D–W.Va.), who has spent months outlining various reasons why he does not support President Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better” plan, said on Sunday that he does not …
More Confusion Over Boosters as FDA Panel Recommends Additional Moderna Shots
Weeks after President Joe Biden effectively told Americans to seek out off-the-books COVID-19 booster shots, his health officials are finally getting around to giving their stamp of approval. Unfortunately, there’s still …
Global Corporate Tax Deal Spares US From Imposing New Tariffs On EU
Global Corporate Tax Deal Spares US From Imposing New Tariffs On EU Now that Ireland, Estonia and Hungary have agreed to the OECD’s global minimum corporate tax framework, trade tensions …
Americans Paid $7.6 Billion in Tariffs During August, a New Monthly Record
Former President Donald Trump hiked tariffs on a wide range of imported goods, President Joe Biden has refused to cut them, and that bipartisan opposition to free trade means Americans …
Biden’s China Trade Policy Is Littered With Contradictions
More bureaucracy. More industrial policy. Maybe even more tariffs. President Joe Biden’s trade policy is sounding more and more like an extension of the mess that former President Donald Trump …
More Than 53,000 American Companies Sought Exemptions From Trump’s China Tariffs. Almost All Were Denied.
The bureaucratic process established by the Trump administration to determine which American companies should be exempted from paying tariffs on imports from China is a black box of “inconsistencies” and …
More Tariffs Won’t End Pollution or Solve Global Warming. They’ll Just Make Stuff More Expensive.
The last three years have provided a pretty effective lesson about how tariffs impose immense economic costs and generally don’t achieve their primary policy aims, but Democrats in Congress apparently …
You Can Now Read the Secret Trump Administration Report That Claimed Your Toyota Is a National Security Threat
More than 18 months after Congress mandated its publication, the Biden administration on Tuesday night published a Trump administration report that sought to justify imposing tariffs on imported cars under …
Joe Biden and the E.U. Move To Lift Trump’s Food Tariffs
During his first presidential visit to Europe, President Joe Biden and his European Union counterparts this week hammered out an important agreement to suspend pointless retaliatory tariffs targeting a host …
