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early and often
Nov. 24, 2023
Trump Has a Plan for Massively Increasing Inflation The GOP candidate is benefiting from outrage over high prices, even though his policies would raise them further.
By Eric Levitz
Do Democrats Need to Get Less ‘Globalist?’ A new book argues that Democrats must embrace economic nationalism to win back the working class.
By Eric Levitz
early and often
May 3, 2023
The Biden Administration Just Declared the Death of Neoliberalism The White House has called for a “new Washington consensus.” Can it become a reality?
By Eric Levitz
What’s Going on With Trump’s TikTok Ban and the Microsoft Deal? As TikTok users continue to hold their looped breath, Microsoft is again trying to acquire the app after dealing with some Trump-prompted confusion.
By Chas Danner
No, Donald Trump Is Not a Working-Class Hero Salena Zito argues that Trump is the sole reliable friend of people who make things with their hands. Unions would disagree.
By Ed Kilgore
coronavirus
Mar. 18, 2020
Distributors Are Racing to Import N95 Masks From China “Manufacturing is back up to 80 to 85 percent in China, but it’s not coming to the U.S. as fast as we all hope.”
By James D. Walsh
The Democrats Love Bipartisanship More Than They Fear Trump As Pelosi hands Trump a win on trade, and Biden defends the GOP’s good name, conservatives are entrenching their minority rule.
By Eric Levitz
Trump Mulls Throwing Big Pharma Under the Bus to Save NAFTA 2.0 The U.S. has long used trade deals as an excuse to export America’s high drug prices. Trump is reportedly willing to back away from that tradition.
By Eric Levitz
Warren’s ‘Economic Patriotism’ Plan Beats Trump at His Own Game The senator has a plausible, eco-friendly plan for reviving American manufacturing and shrinking the trade deficit.
By Eric Levitz
Trump’s Two-Front Trade War Is Unsustainable It appeared that Trump was, for once, behaving strategically on trade. Not anymore.
By Josh Barro
the top line
May 17, 2019
Trump Is Adjusting His Trade Strategy to Be More Realistic And this looks like a nod at something Trump hates: multilateralism.
By Josh Barro
Can Bernie Sanders Make Joe Biden’s Anti-Labor Trade Record Matter? Sanders sees Biden’s support for NAFTA and TPP as his fatal flaw, undermining the front-runner’s pro-union branding and supposed electability.
By Eric Levitz
Trump’s NAFTA 2.0 Puts Big Pharma First, America Second Trump says lowering pharmaceutical prices is a priority. But his trade deal would bar Congress from curtailing patent monopolies on biologic drugs.
By Eric Levitz
With New NAFTA Deal, Trump Avoids Disaster But Falls Short on Big Trade Promises Canada has signed on to a deal that shores up and modernizes the existing trade system, but fails to address major issues that animated Trump voters.
By Heather Hurlburt
U.S. and Canada Strike a Deal to Save NAFTA It will be called the “United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement,” or USMCA.
By Adam K. Raymond
foreign policy
Sept. 25, 2018
The President Treats the U.N. to a Good Old-Fashioned Trump Rally The president’s nationalist speech was a list of things that the United States does and doesn’t see as threatening.
By Heather Hurlburt
As Chinese Learn to Cope With Trump’s Trade War, Americans Are Still Set to Lose Trump’s belligerent, zero-sum trade policies will ultimately hurt American consumers and are already driving other countries to work around us.
By Jonah Shepp
Where Can I Get the Freshest Coffee in the City? A coffee authority knows where to get especially great cups of joe.
By Nikita Richardson
trade deficit
Sept. 5, 2018
As Trump Doles Out Tariffs, the U.S. Trade Deficit Soars The trade deficit rose 10 percent in July, putting the U.S. on pace for its widest annual gap in a decade.
By Eric Levitz
Trump’s Quiet Assault on Small Newspapers Just Came to an End The International Trade Commission ruled that Trump tariffs on newsprint are illegitimate — but not before those duties devastated regional papers.
By Eric Levitz
Despite Talks With China, Trump Is in No Rush to Call Off His Trade War China is eager to make a deal, but the administration wants to tighten the screws with more tariffs first.
By Jonah Shepp
As Trade War Drags On, the Cry Spreads: ‘Where’s Our Bailout?’ Trump’s efforts to buy off farmers were predictable. But as the pain spreads from his trade war, so, too, do calls for compensation.
By Ed Kilgore
It’s Normal for the U.S. to Put Corporate Profits Above Babies’ Health Under Trump, America undermined global public health for the sake of enriching corporations. It did the same thing under Clinton and Obama.
By Eric Levitz
Trump Has a Bill That Would Blow Up the WTO. It’s Called the U.S. FART Act. The “United States Fair and Reciprocal Tariff Act” would give Trump unlimited power to wage trade wars. Fortunately, the Fart ACT is just hot air.
By Eric Levitz
China Retaliates With New Tariffs as Trump’s Trade War Escalates If Trump retaliates further as promised, there could be no chance to avoid a large-scale trade war with widespread consequences.
By Chas Danner
Trump Raises Taxes on Chinese Goods, Eyes Foreign Cars Next Trump slaps tariffs on $50 billion in Chinese imports, while preparing to declare foreign-made cars a “national security threat.”
By Eric Levitz
Trump Threatens to End All Trade With Allies He also suggested that there be no trade barriers of any kind among the G7.
By Chas Danner
global economy
June 7, 2018
How Will We Know When the Trade War Starts? The response of our allies shows that Trump has taken the U.S. into unknown territory — and the health of the global economy is on the line.
By Heather Hurlburt
U.S. Cuts Deal With Sanctioned Chinese Tech Company ZTE Less than two months after crippling ZTE for violating sanctions, the U.S. is rescuing the telecom giant.
By Adam K. Raymond
Trump’s America Isn’t Going to the G7 to Make Friends (or Keep Them) Diplomacy between the U.S. and its Western allies is devolving into a carefully choreographed reality-show feud.
By Eric Levitz
the national interest
June 7, 2018
President Trump Still Way Too Lazy to Do His Job News reports continue to convey the president’s aversion to presidenting.
By Jonathan Chait
Trump Slaps Steel and Aluminum Tariffs on the E.U., Canada, and Mexico The decision is likely to lead these core American allies to retaliate against American exporters.
By Eric Levitz
Trump Moves Ahead With Trade Sanctions Against China In what seems to be a negotiating tactic, the White House announced it was proceeding with tariffs and other trade restrictions until further notice.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump Seeks Public’s Trust on China Talks, Tells Blatant Lie Trump assures voters that he’s winning the trade negotiations — and that Beijing will lowers tariffs on U.S. goods for the “first time.”
By Eric Levitz
Trump Vows to Help Sanctioned Chinese Tech Company The president says he will help the Chinese phonemaker ZTE, which is struggling after being banned from buying U.S. components.
By Chas Danner
Trump Looks Into Rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership Withdrawing from the TPP was the one “economically populist” campaign promise that Trump actually fulfilled. Now, he wants back in.
By Eric Levitz
We Can’t Stop Using This New Coffee Discovery Tool Trade is a new website that’s basically the Zappos of craft coffee.
By Clint Rainey
Trump Cheers on Trade War With China As Stocks Tumble After Beijing threatened to slap tariffs on 106 U.S. exports Wednesday, markets panicked — and Trump reiterated his enthusiasm for trade war.
By Eric Levitz
Trump Threatens to Pull Out of ‘Great’ Trade Deal With South Korea Trump says he may not abide by the trade deal he struck just days ago — until Seoul convinces Pyongyang that it can trust him to abide by deals.
By Eric Levitz
Trump Hits China With $50 Billion in Tariffs “This is the first of many,” Trump said as he signed the order. “This is number one — but this is the first of many.”
By Eric Levitz
Trump Is Preparing More Than $30 Billion in Anti-China Tariffs The president is on the cusp of launching the most aggressive (and, arguably, illegal) trade action of his tenure.
By Eric Levitz
Trump Brings Back Ancient GOP Tradition of Protectionism He appears to be a true believer in reversing globalization, not just using tariffs as a weapon. That’s both new — and very old — for Republicans.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump Bids Good-bye to Gary Cohn — and Empirical Reality The president’s worst impulses had been constrained by deference to the stock market and corporate America. Now, he’s thumbing his nose at both.
By Eric Levitz
Paul Ryan and Other Republicans Try to Talk Trump Out of Tariffs At least for a day, the House Speaker isn’t a presidential lackey.
By Benjamin Hart
Trump: I’ll Lift Tariffs If NAFTA Is Renegotiated The president is attempting to bully two close allies into submission.
By Benjamin Hart
Trump (Finally) Declares Trade War By slapping high tariffs on steel and aluminum, the president has brought the GOP Establishment nightmare to life.
By Eric Levitz
Amid White House Unrest, Trump Mulls Launching a Trade War Steel and aluminum executives have been summoned to the White House for a big announcement on tariffs, but the details haven’t been finalized.
By Margaret Hartmann
Commerce Department Offers Trump Ammunition for His Trade War Trump has until April 11 to decide whether to impose high tariffs on aluminum and steel. It’s a subject that divides his party and administration.
By Ed Kilgore
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