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The Pundit’s Dilemma

Noah Smith | Noahpinion | 04/22/2025

Trumpism will deindustrialize America. That’s a hard pill for some thinkers to swallow. “There are no American troops in Baghdad!” — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf Around the middle of 2022, it became…

We Never Had Free Trade

Robert Kuttner | The American Prospect | 04/08/2025

The U.S. trading system since the 1970s has screwed American workers. But the main cul...

Only Trump’s Tariffs Can Fix a Rigged Global Trading System

Peter Navarro | Financial Review | 04/08/2025

The international trade system is broken – and Donald ...

REACTION: Trump’s Tariffs and Latin America

Sergio Luna, Antonio Ortiz-Mena & Luíza Pinese | Americas Quarterly | 04/03/2025

On April 2, President Donald Trum...

Will Trump’s Tariffs Be Good for Auto Workers?

Sean Crawford | Labor Notes | 04/02/2025

During the 2019 General Motors strike, while my fellow workers and I wer...

Farmers Look for Silver Linings As Reciprocal Tariffs Go Into Effect

Rhonda Brooks | AgWeb | 04/02/2025

On Wednesday afternoon, President Trump announced a series...

Tariffs Will Destroy the Best Cure for the Trade Deficit

Shannon K. O'Neil | Council on Foreign Relations | 03/31/2025

Trump’s upcoming tariff barrage is supposed...

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