Your Life Will Never Be the Same After These Tariffs

Justin Wolfers The New York Times
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.

How MAHA Is Helping Poison Americans

Gabriella Coleman and Eric Reinhart Politico
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?

Highlights From Cory Booker's 25-Hour Senate Speech

In an inspiring feat, Sen. Cory Booker held the Senate floor for 25 hours, delivering a sweeping indictment of Donald Trump’s assault and insisting that "the power of the people is stronger than the people in power." 

Gone, Baby

Suzanne Lummis In the Black, In the Red: Poems of Profit $ Loss
Poet Suzanne Lummis offers a bedtime story for the children of America, in which we witness the miracle of deflation.

Trump’s Tariffs Aren’t Going To Work How He Thinks They Will

Kate Aronoff The New Republic
Supposedly, this is all going to revive domestic manufacturing. But the evidence for that is slim, and it wouldn’t happen overnight—especially not without other policies. At a basic level, tariffs make stuff more expensive.