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Oren Cass

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Here’s what a new US-Mexico-Canada trade deal should look like

The old WTO model is dead — sovereign control and national security matter

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There’s only one winner if Democrats shut down the government

The party should be concentrating on developing a new agenda not theatrics

16.09.2025 6

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Trump’s immigration agenda follows the trade template — for good and ill

Long-term frameworks are necessary to lock in the desired effects of the US administration’s most controversial policies

12.07.2025 5

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How true populists should think about Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’

There is a position between the old Republican guard and budget fairyland

20.06.2025 6

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Tariffs are a bet on the free market rather than free trade

Innovation has stalled in a globalised era dominated by state-sponsored national champions

12.05.2025 5

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Europe must choose between America and China

In a multi-polar world, old certainties about the US security guarantee and access to markets no longer hold

12.04.2025 10

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Beware America’s fake fiscal conservatives

Republicans are indulging in budgetary chicanery in order to preserve Trump’s tax cuts

13.03.2025 30

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Negotiation tactic / What economists don’t get about Trump’s tariffs

11.02.2025 40

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What economists don’t get about Trump’s tariffs

09.02.2025 30

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What economists don’t get about Trump’s tariffs

06.02.2025 10

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Optimism but not confidence as Trump takes control

From infrastructure spending to relations with China, uncertainty reigns

20.01.2025 5

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Trump can bend Biden’s industrial policy to his own priorities

America appears on the cusp of an era of large-scale domestic investment in areas from semiconductors to energy

18.12.2024 6

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Democrats do not know how to talk to young men — and it cost them

The Harris campaign failed to engage with these voters as citizens with agency

10.11.2024 40

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What if honesty really is the best policy in politics?

Data suggests Americans can handle the truth if politicians are willing to tell it

24.10.2024 6

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US union members and leaders are not always on the same political page

The data behind the Teamsters refusal to endorse a candidate may be more widespread than we think

03.10.2024 30

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The problem with empty US campaign promises

Both Harris and Trump seem determined not to be pinned down on policy

05.09.2024 5

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Both parties have a chance to appeal to American workers — but will they take it?

Political elites are pulling Republicans and Democrats away from the voters they need to win over

09.08.2024 2

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