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Trump to roll out sweeping tariffs. Here’s what to know.

President Donald Trump unveiled his tariff plans on Wednesday, April 2, during a ceremony at the White House, imposing tariffs of at least 10 percent on all foreign-made goods. For products made in China, the tariff rate will be 34 percent; for those made in Vietnam, it will be 46 percent; for the European Union, […]

The cruel irony of the coming tariff war

The day this article goes up, April 2, has been pegged by President Donald Trump as “Liberation Day”: the day his suite of tariffs will go into effect and thus, in some unspecified sense, liberate the United States. The pre-history of this disastrous set of policies, which will only make America poorer and alienate it […]

Will cheap housing lead to more babies?

One of the buzziest books in America right now is Abundance, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s bestseller on why our failure to build enough homes has contributed to soaring costs and needless political strife. And one of the most provocative movements in politics these days is pronatalism — a coalition sounding the alarm on people […]

Where the right’s defense of free speech ends

In God and Man at Yale, the 1951 book that made William F. Buckley famous, American conservatism’s founding father argues that academic freedom is premised on a fiction. While professors claim that they are merely attempting to equip their students with the tools necessary to comprehend the world and succeed in it, they are in […]

Are tariffs a bad idea? Yes and no.

Today is “Liberation Day,” according to President Donald Trump — the day he announces a slate of new tariffs. This is just the latest update to tariff policies that have already caused a good deal of whiplash since Trump took office in January. He threatened to impose tariffs on Colombia and canceled his plan to do […]