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Hundreds of thousands are protesting Trump across the country today.

The ongoing influence of slavery and Jim Crow means high poverty rates and low economic mobility in the South

We are not talking about geography (Dakar is much further west than Rome), but race: the West we are talking about substantially coincides with the white race.

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Permanent tariffs are bad for the economy, but businesses can, for the most part, find a way to live with them. What business can’t deal with is a regime under which trade policy reflects the whims of a mad king.

Radical labor leader Harry Bridges successfully fought the government's attempt to deport him. In the Bridges case, the Supreme Court held that noncitizens enjoyed the same First Amendments rights as everyone else.

Small tariffs create small problems. Big tariffs create huge ones. This round of tariffs may be 50 times as painful as the ones Donald Trump instituted in his first term. That means they are going to reshape your life in much more fundamental ways.

The ambitions of MAHA for safer food and protection from harmful chemicals are being diverted into dismantling the institutions and regulations that protect public health. What would a genuinely populist health movement look like?