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How a Con Man President Is Destroying Confidence

Paul Krugman
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.

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?

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.

How Democrats Can Win by Organizing From the County Up

Joel Bleifuss & Justin Perkins Barn Raiser
In her new role as a party leader, Jane Kleeb is organizing Democrats to go on the offensive. "People are excited to hear the Democratic Party giving them something concrete that we are working toward."

Tidbits – Apr.3 – Reader Comments: All Out for April 5th – Hands Off!; Thousands Protest ICE Abductions; Trump Signs Order Ending Union Bargaining Rights for Federal Employees; the New Definition of Antisemitism; Public Sector Labor Struggles;

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Reader Comments: All Out for April 5th - Hands Off!; Thousands Protest ICE Abductions; Trump Signs Order Ending Union Bargaining Rights for Federal Employees; The New Definition of Antisemitism; Public Sector Labor Struggles, Then and Now; and more..
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