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Tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China Could Start This Weekend

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Biden's Record-Breaking Regulatory Run

Biden's Record-Breaking Regulatory Run
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Trump's Pick for Commerce Secretary Wants More Industrial Policy for Chipmakers

Trump's Pick for Commerce Secretary Wants More Industrial Policy for Chipmakers
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Trump's Tariffs To Tank Tequila

Trump's Tariffs To Tank Tequila
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Trump Tries To Fire Inspectors General, Likely Violating Federal Law

Trump Tries To Fire Inspectors General, Likely Violating Federal Law
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How Trump Could Unilaterally Place Tariffs on Mexico and Canada

How Trump Could Unilaterally Place Tariffs on Mexico and Canada
23.01.2025 3

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Trump Is Trying To Fire Most of the White House's Civil Liberties Watchdog

Trump Is Trying To Fire Most of the White House's Civil Liberties Watchdog
23.01.2025 8

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Can Trump Rename the Gulf of Mexico With an Executive Order?

Can Trump Rename the Gulf of Mexico With an Executive Order?
22.01.2025 10

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Trump Promises To Be a 'Peacemaker,' Threatens Panama

Trump Promises To Be a 'Peacemaker,' Threatens Panama
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Trump's 'External Revenue Service' Is a Public Relations Effort. It Won't Change How Tariffs Work.

Trump's 'External Revenue Service' Is a Public Relations Effort. It Won't Change How Tariffs Work.
21.01.2025 10

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Finding Trillions in Federal Cuts Is Easy. But Will Trump and Musk Follow Through?

Finding Trillions in Federal Cuts Is Easy. But Will Trump and Musk Follow Through?
20.01.2025 30

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TikTok Goes Dark in the U.S.

TikTok Goes Dark in the U.S.
19.01.2025 10

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Regulation, Prohibition, and Litigation: Joe Biden's Busy Lame-Duck Period

Regulation, Prohibition, and Litigation: Joe Biden's Busy Lame-Duck Period
17.01.2025 3

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Hegseth on Defense

Hegseth on Defense
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Trump's Inauguration Won't Change the Fact That People Dislike High Gas Prices

Trump's Inauguration Won't Change the Fact That People Dislike High Gas Prices
14.01.2025 6

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Be Skeptical of 'Beneficially Coercive' New Rules for Booze

Be Skeptical of 'Beneficially Coercive' New Rules for Booze
14.01.2025 20

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Election Reforms Blocked by Elections

Election Reforms Blocked by Elections
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When New Jersey Hiked Minimum Wages, Fast Food Prices Rose

When New Jersey Hiked Minimum Wages, Fast Food Prices Rose
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Review: Cabaret's Broadway Revival

Review: Cabaret's Broadway Revival
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Justin Trudeau's 'One Regret' Is Not Implementing Ranked Choice Voting in Canada

Voting Eric Boehm | 1.8.2025 2:15 PM As he heads for the exit, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his "one regret" is not overhauling the...

08.01.2025 3

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With U.S. Steel Decision, Biden Turned His Back on Opposing Monopolies

Free Trade Eric Boehm | 1.7.2025 11:30 AM As he signed a sweeping executive order in July 2021 intended to crack down on anticompetitive business...

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Mike Johnson Is Speaker of the House. Again.

Politics Eric Boehm | 1.3.2025 2:20 PM (UPDATE: After seeming to come up short in his bid to be named speaker of the House, Rep. Mike Johnson...

04.01.2025 4

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Blocking the U.S. Steel Sale Is a Perfectly Disgraceful End to Biden's Political Career

Free Trade Eric Boehm | 1.3.2025 12:30 PM The decision to block U.S. Steel's acquisition by Nippon Steel is the perfect coda to President Joe...

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Will Thomas Massie Get To Pick the Next Speaker of the House?

Politics Eric Boehm | 1.2.2025 3:40 PM It's nearly time once again for everyone's favorite congressional game show: Who Can Get Elected Speaker of...

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Bootleggers and Baptists in the U.S. Steel Deal

steel industry Eric Boehm | 12.31.2024 2:50 PM As President Joe Biden continues to mull whether to allow one private steelmaking company to...

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Final Farewells

Presidential History Eric Boehm | 12.30.2024 9:30 AM Jimmy Carter, America's 39th president, died Sunday. Carter won a Nobel Peace Prize for his...

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Can Nativists and Dynamists Coexist Within Trump's MAGA Coalition?

Immigration Eric Boehm | 12.27.2024 10:30 AM When President-elect Donald Trump tapped Sriram Krishnan to be a senior policy advisor on artificial...

27.12.2024 5

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Trump's Tariffs Will Shrink the Economy and Reduce Investment, CBO Says

Free Trade Eric Boehm | 12.23.2024 1:45 PM President-elect Donald Trump's proposed tariffs would result in higher prices, lower economic growth,...

23.12.2024 4

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Cancerous Politics

Government Spending Eric Boehm | 12.23.2024 9:40 AM This is why people hate politics: A debate that sprung up in the final hours before lawmakers...

23.12.2024 5

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Joe Biden Once Understood Why Tariffs Are Bad. Then He Got Trade Policy Amnesia.

Joe Biden Eric Boehm | From the January 2025 issue In the January 2025 issue of Reason, we're giving performance reviews of Joe Biden's presidency....

22.12.2024 3

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Taxpayers Outside Maryland Shouldn't Pay To Rebuild a Toll Bridge Inside Maryland

Congress Eric Boehm | 12.18.2024 2:30 PM Federal taxpayers will cover the full cost of rebuilding Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge if Congress...

18.12.2024 5

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Social Security Is Deeply Unfair. The Social Security Fairness Act Won't Fix That.

Social Security Eric Boehm | 12.17.2024 12:55 PM Since publishing an article yesterday about the Senate's upcoming vote on a bill to bestow better...

17.12.2024 6

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Senate Tees Up $200 Billion Social Security Giveaway to Public Sector Workers

Social Security Eric Boehm | 12.16.2024 1:26 PM The Senate is reportedly set to vote on a bill boosting Social Security payouts to public sector...

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Federal Government Has 'Grown Too Big, Promised Too Much, Subsidized Too Many,' Warns Former GAO Boss

Government Waste Eric Boehm | 12.13.2024 10:30 AM The United States is likely to face a debt crisis within the next five years unless Congress...

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Capping Overdraft Fees Will Hurt Some of the People It Is Supposed To Help

Regulation Eric Boehm | 12.12.2024 1:45 PM If today's announcement by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is the final skirmish in the...

12.12.2024 4

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The PPP Was a COVID-Era Disaster. Trump Wants To Promote the Guy Who Ran It.

Trump Administration Eric Boehm | 12.5.2024 1:15 PM The pandemic-era Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was a bloated, wasteful mess—and now the guy...

05.12.2024 2

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Peter Navarro Should Not Have Power Over U.S. Trade Policy—or Anything

Free Trade Eric Boehm | 12.4.2024 2:45 PM Shortly after then-President Donald Trump launched his "good and easy to win" trade wars in 2017, Peter...

04.12.2024 4

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Trump's Vow To Block U.S. Steel's Sale Sends Stock Tumbling

Free Markets Eric Boehm | 12.3.2024 12:00 PM A few hours after the American stock markets closed on Monday night, President-elect Donald Trump...

03.12.2024 4

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A Taxpocalypse of Rising Rates Is Coming For Americans if Congress Doesn't Act

Taxes Eric Boehm | From the January 2025 issue When the new session of Congress opens on January 3, the clock will already be ticking toward the...

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Trump's New Tariffs Could Create Higher Gas Prices

Free Trade Eric Boehm | 11.27.2024 2:15 PM President-elect Donald Trump's threat to slap huge new tariffs on all imports from Canada and Mexico...

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Return of the 'Tariff Man'

Free Trade Eric Boehm | 11.26.2024 9:30 AM Okay, so we're doing this. President-elect Donald Trump says in no uncertain terms that he'll seek to...

26.11.2024 6

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Will Trump's Labor Secretary Pick Be a Big Win for Public Sector Unions?

Trump Administration Eric Boehm | 11.21.2024 3:15 PM As a member of Congress, Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R–Ore.) teamed up with Vice President...

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The Last Chance To Curtail Trump's Tariff Powers?

Free Trade Eric Boehm | 11.21.2024 11:50 AM President-elect Donald Trump has promised to impose huge new tariffs on goods imported into the United...

21.11.2024 9

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Abolish the Commerce Department

Trump Administration Eric Boehm | 11.20.2024 1:00 PM If the Senate goes along with President-elect Donald Trump's pick, then financier Howard...

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West Virginia Voters Passed a Constitutional Amendment Prohibiting Assisted Suicide

Election 2024 Eric Boehm | 11.19.2024 10:15 AM West Virginians narrowly approved a ballot question to constitutionally prohibit people from seeking...

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The National Debt Just Hit $36 Trillion. Does Trump Have a Plan To Control It?

National Debt Eric Boehm | 11.15.2024 4:30 PM In last week's elections, Americans rejected the status quo in the federal government and asked...

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Rand Paul Will Continue His COVID-19 Investigations From Atop the Senate Homeland Security Committee

Politics Eric Boehm | 11.14.2024 1:05 PM When Republicans officially take control of the U.S. Senate in January, a longtime critic of the national...

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To Succeed at Cutting Government, Musk and Ramaswamy Must Take on Entitlements

Government Spending Eric Boehm | 11.13.2024 12:30 PM Possibly the biggest pile of waste in the federal government is the amount of "improper...

13.11.2024 3

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Democrats Are About to Rediscover the Value of the Filibuster

Filibuster Eric Boehm | 11.12.2024 12:35 PM Three years ago, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D–Wash.) and nearly 100 of her House colleagues signed a letter...

12.11.2024 4

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How Much Will Trump's Tariffs Cost?

Free Trade Eric Boehm | 11.8.2024 2:05 PM President-elect Donald Trump's calls for higher taxes on imports is already triggering discussions in the...

08.11.2024 3

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