The Tariff Tug-of-War: A Look at Protectionism and Free Trade Over Time
Lucas Benjamin | The Science Survey | 04/29/2025
The longstanding battle between protecti...
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Nicolas Lamp | EJIL:Talk! | 04/30/2025
When US President Donald Trump announced the imposition of “reciprocal” tariffs on virtually the entire globe on April 2nd, many observers felt that they were witnessing a historic event—the “end…
Lucas Benjamin | The Science Survey | 04/29/2025
The longstanding battle between protecti...
Noah Smith | Noahpinion | 04/22/2025
Trumpism will deindustrialize America. That’s a hard pill for some thinkers to swallow. “The...
Madalena Barata da Rocha, Nicolas Boivin & Niclas Poitiers | Bruegel | 04/17/2025
Monica Gorman | Manufacturing Dive | 04/17/2025
For years, policymakers have championed “Made in America” as a silver bullet f...
Robert Kuttner | The American Prospect | 04/08/2025
The U.S. trading system since the 1970s has screwed American workers. But the main cul...
Peter Navarro | Financial Review | 04/08/2025
The international trade system is broken – and Donald ...
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