Free Trade In Tariff Case, Trump's Attorneys Can't Decide if Foreign Investment Is Good or Bad for America The administration's legal brief reveals a critical contradiction in Trump's trade policies. Eric Boehm | 11.3.2025 12:20 PM
Javier Milei Javier Milei's Libertarian Policies Win Shock Election Plus: Trump’s new tariffs on Canada, more unauthorized military strikes in Venezuela, and what a Mamdani victory in NYC could mean for the country. Liz Wolfe | 10.27.2025 7:24 PM
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Canada Canada's Antagonism Plus: Betting scandal in the NBA, inside the most worrisome porn subculture, and more... Liz Wolfe | 10.24.2025 9:30 AM
Free Trade Canada Should Offer to Drop Its Terrible Agricultural Restrictions in Return for U.S. Tariff Reductions There’s an opportunity to abandon bad policies that raise consumer costs and move toward free trade. J.D. Tuccille | 9.26.2025 7:00 AM
Washington Forget MAGA, Trump Is Making America Canada Turning the National Guard into a nationwide police force betrays the Founders’ vision and erodes the freedoms that make the U.S. exceptional. Tate Kaufman | 8.26.2025 12:00 PM
Canada Nova Scotia Bans Everyone From Hiking in the Woods Until October The province says this will prevent forest fires. Those who violate the ban will face a $25,000 fine. Sophia Mandt | 8.19.2025 2:35 PM
War on Drugs Hiking Tariffs on Canada, Trump Demands 'Adequate Steps' To Achieve an Impossible Drug War Goal Canada accounts for a tiny percentage of fentanyl smuggling, which cannot be stopped by trying harder. Jacob Sullum | 8.1.2025 3:20 PM
Canada Montreal Fines Church $2,500 for Hosting a Controversial American Singer Christian artist Sean Feucht has been forced to find new venues for all six of his most recent shows in Canada. Sophia Mandt | 7.31.2025 5:30 PM
Protests Canada Seeks To Jail Freedom Convoy Organizers for 8 Years Too many government officials see dissent as the worst crime imaginable. J.D. Tuccille | 7.30.2025 7:00 AM
Air Traffic Control Why Does the Government Run Air Traffic Control? Air traffic control is simply too important to leave up to the politicians. Eric Boehm | 7.29.2025 11:00 AM Tariffs How Trump's Proposed 35 Percent Tariff on Canada Could Harm Domestic Manufacturing Increasing the cost of inputs and imported energy would make American exports less competitive. Jack Nicastro | 7.11.2025 1:50 PM Travel Why Are Immigrants From Tropical Countries Coming to This Arctic Outpost? "Why not here?" says the owner of a Lebanese restaurant in Canada's semiautonomous Nunavut Territory. Matthew Petti | 7.8.2025 6:00 AM Sports Why the NFLPA Kept Damning Collusion Evidence From Its Own Players Plus: NHL labor news, wrestling regulations, and F1: The Movie. Jason Russell | 7.1.2025 11:25 AM Weather Brickbat: Too Hot to Cool Off Charles Oliver | 7.1.2025 4:00 AM Canada Quebec's Dairy Farmers Are Blocking Free Trade in Canada An outdated supply management system—designed to protect Quebec’s small dairy farms—is undermining Canada's global trade ambitions and hurting its own consumers. Stuart J. Smyth | 6.21.2025 7:00 AM Money Brickbat: Border Bills Charles Oliver | 6.17.2025 4:00 AM Free Trade Trade War Means Higher Prices, Fewer Customers for This Vermont Distillery: 'It's Just Chaos' Scenes from a trade war. Eric Boehm | 5.15.2025 12:50 PM Tariffs 3 Myths About Tariffs "If this is the end of my American dream," says one small business owner, "I'm going to go down swinging." John Stossel | 5.14.2025 12:30 AM Foreign Policy What if the President Tries to Annex Greenland and Canada? Trump's new imperialism makes neither economic nor geopolitical sense. Daniel W. Drezner | 5.4.2025 6:00 AM Donald Trump Trump's Tattoo Fantasy Raises the Question: If He Were Senile, How Would We Know? The president's bizarre insistence that Kilmar Abrego Garcia "had MS-13 tattooed" on "his knuckles" makes him seem like a confused old man. Jacob Sullum | 5.1.2025 3:25 PM Canada Brickbat: No Vacancies Charles Oliver | 4.17.2025 4:00 AM Parking tickets Brickbat: Bus Stop and Go Charles Oliver | 4.15.2025 4:00 AM Tariffs Blackfeet Nation Indians File Lawsuit Challenging Trump's Canada Tariffs They argue the tariffs violate the constitutional separation of powers and their tribal treaty rights. Ilya Somin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 4.13.2025 4:54 PM Tariffs How Trump's New Tariffs Will Make Farming (and Food) More Expensive Trump's first trade war cost farmers $27 billion. Losses this time around could be higher. Jeff Luse | 4.3.2025 12:17 PM Tariffs America Is Losing Trump's Trade War to Itself If tariffs are so great, why has Trump shown a willingness to back down from his threats if other countries agree to certain conditions? Eric Boehm | 4.3.2025 6:00 AM Free Trade The Senate Just Passed Rand Paul's Bill To Block Trump's Tariffs on Canada The bill faces an uncertain future, but it is a faint glimmer of hope for those hoping to limit executive power over trade. Eric Boehm | 4.2.2025 8:05 PM Tariffs Looking for Plaintiffs to Challenge Trump's IEEPA Tariffs in Court The Liberty Justice Center and I are looking for appropriate plaintiffs to bring this type of case. LJC (a prominent public interest law firm) can represent them pro bono. Ilya Somin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 4.2.2025 3:33 PM Canada Oh, Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney's plan to create a federal housing developer is a terrible idea. Christian Britschgi | 4.1.2025 1:45 PM Free Trade A Trade War Will Reduce American Exports Too It's obvious that tariffs will harm American companies that import goods. But the losses don't end there. Eric Boehm | 4.1.2025 1:15 PM Free Trade The Hidden Politics of Whiskey Prices Donald Trump is determined to make everything from Canadian whiskey to Mexican avocados more expensive. Can anyone stop him? Eric Boehm | 3.31.2025 11:00 AM Canada To Remain Canadian, Our Northern Neighbors Should Become a Little More American Canada long relied on the U.S. for protection. Now it needs to rediscover self-reliance. J.D. Tuccille | 3.31.2025 7:00 AM Tariffs Challenging Trump's Tariffs Under the Major Question Doctrine Georgetown law Prof. Jennifer Hillman explains why Trump's tariffs are vulnerable to challenge on this basis. Ilya Somin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 3.29.2025 6:53 PM Clean Energy We're Not Short on Power. We're Just Too Sanctimonious To Generate It. Northeastern states import massive amounts of electricity from Canada while strangling domestic energy production with regulations. Marc Oestreich | 3.27.2025 6:30 AM Free Trade Don't Bail Out Farmers Again Farmers will bear the brunt of Trump's trade war. That's a good reason to avoid tariffs in the first place, not an excuse for another bailout. Eric Boehm | 3.25.2025 10:50 AM Immigration Trump's War With the Courts Plus: A listener asks why some American libertarians seem to unquestioningly accept everything Vladimir Putin says. Andrew Sullivan | 3.24.2025 5:49 PM Comedy Political Severance The work is mysterious and abhorrent. Andrew Heaton | 3.20.2025 11:00 AM Tariffs Trump Makes Canada Free Again Canada’s retaliation against Trump’s tariffs is wiping American alcohol off store shelves—and fueling an unexpected push to deregulate its own restrictive liquor laws. C. Jarrett Dieterle | 3.15.2025 7:00 AM Free Trade Howard Lutnick Doesn't Get To Decide What You Buy There is no "royal we" in the marketplace. Eric Boehm | 3.14.2025 4:10 PM Free Trade Why Some American Businesses Want More Tariffs A quick lesson about concentrated benefits and diffused costs Eric Boehm | 3.11.2025 12:05 PM Free Trade Trump's Trade War With America's Neighbors Is All Cost and No Benefit What did we learn from yet another escalation in the North American trade war? Not to do it again. Eric Boehm | 3.7.2025 12:02 PM Donald Trump In Speech to Congress, Trump Promises More Tariff Madness The tariffs Trump has already imposed on Canada, Mexico, and China will cost an estimated $142 billion this year—and he says more are on the way. Eric Boehm | 3.4.2025 10:36 PM More
Tariffs How Trump's Proposed 35 Percent Tariff on Canada Could Harm Domestic Manufacturing Increasing the cost of inputs and imported energy would make American exports less competitive. Jack Nicastro | 7.11.2025 1:50 PM
Travel Why Are Immigrants From Tropical Countries Coming to This Arctic Outpost? "Why not here?" says the owner of a Lebanese restaurant in Canada's semiautonomous Nunavut Territory. Matthew Petti | 7.8.2025 6:00 AM
Sports Why the NFLPA Kept Damning Collusion Evidence From Its Own Players Plus: NHL labor news, wrestling regulations, and F1: The Movie. Jason Russell | 7.1.2025 11:25 AM
Canada Quebec's Dairy Farmers Are Blocking Free Trade in Canada An outdated supply management system—designed to protect Quebec’s small dairy farms—is undermining Canada's global trade ambitions and hurting its own consumers. Stuart J. Smyth | 6.21.2025 7:00 AM
Free Trade Trade War Means Higher Prices, Fewer Customers for This Vermont Distillery: 'It's Just Chaos' Scenes from a trade war. Eric Boehm | 5.15.2025 12:50 PM
Tariffs 3 Myths About Tariffs "If this is the end of my American dream," says one small business owner, "I'm going to go down swinging." John Stossel | 5.14.2025 12:30 AM
Foreign Policy What if the President Tries to Annex Greenland and Canada? Trump's new imperialism makes neither economic nor geopolitical sense. Daniel W. Drezner | 5.4.2025 6:00 AM
Donald Trump Trump's Tattoo Fantasy Raises the Question: If He Were Senile, How Would We Know? The president's bizarre insistence that Kilmar Abrego Garcia "had MS-13 tattooed" on "his knuckles" makes him seem like a confused old man. Jacob Sullum | 5.1.2025 3:25 PM
Tariffs Blackfeet Nation Indians File Lawsuit Challenging Trump's Canada Tariffs They argue the tariffs violate the constitutional separation of powers and their tribal treaty rights. Ilya Somin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 4.13.2025 4:54 PM
Tariffs How Trump's New Tariffs Will Make Farming (and Food) More Expensive Trump's first trade war cost farmers $27 billion. Losses this time around could be higher. Jeff Luse | 4.3.2025 12:17 PM
Tariffs America Is Losing Trump's Trade War to Itself If tariffs are so great, why has Trump shown a willingness to back down from his threats if other countries agree to certain conditions? Eric Boehm | 4.3.2025 6:00 AM
Free Trade The Senate Just Passed Rand Paul's Bill To Block Trump's Tariffs on Canada The bill faces an uncertain future, but it is a faint glimmer of hope for those hoping to limit executive power over trade. Eric Boehm | 4.2.2025 8:05 PM
Tariffs Looking for Plaintiffs to Challenge Trump's IEEPA Tariffs in Court The Liberty Justice Center and I are looking for appropriate plaintiffs to bring this type of case. LJC (a prominent public interest law firm) can represent them pro bono. Ilya Somin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 4.2.2025 3:33 PM
Canada Oh, Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney's plan to create a federal housing developer is a terrible idea. Christian Britschgi | 4.1.2025 1:45 PM
Free Trade A Trade War Will Reduce American Exports Too It's obvious that tariffs will harm American companies that import goods. But the losses don't end there. Eric Boehm | 4.1.2025 1:15 PM
Free Trade The Hidden Politics of Whiskey Prices Donald Trump is determined to make everything from Canadian whiskey to Mexican avocados more expensive. Can anyone stop him? Eric Boehm | 3.31.2025 11:00 AM Canada To Remain Canadian, Our Northern Neighbors Should Become a Little More American Canada long relied on the U.S. for protection. Now it needs to rediscover self-reliance. J.D. Tuccille | 3.31.2025 7:00 AM Tariffs Challenging Trump's Tariffs Under the Major Question Doctrine Georgetown law Prof. Jennifer Hillman explains why Trump's tariffs are vulnerable to challenge on this basis. Ilya Somin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 3.29.2025 6:53 PM Clean Energy We're Not Short on Power. We're Just Too Sanctimonious To Generate It. Northeastern states import massive amounts of electricity from Canada while strangling domestic energy production with regulations. Marc Oestreich | 3.27.2025 6:30 AM Free Trade Don't Bail Out Farmers Again Farmers will bear the brunt of Trump's trade war. That's a good reason to avoid tariffs in the first place, not an excuse for another bailout. Eric Boehm | 3.25.2025 10:50 AM Immigration Trump's War With the Courts Plus: A listener asks why some American libertarians seem to unquestioningly accept everything Vladimir Putin says. Andrew Sullivan | 3.24.2025 5:49 PM Comedy Political Severance The work is mysterious and abhorrent. Andrew Heaton | 3.20.2025 11:00 AM Tariffs Trump Makes Canada Free Again Canada’s retaliation against Trump’s tariffs is wiping American alcohol off store shelves—and fueling an unexpected push to deregulate its own restrictive liquor laws. C. Jarrett Dieterle | 3.15.2025 7:00 AM Free Trade Howard Lutnick Doesn't Get To Decide What You Buy There is no "royal we" in the marketplace. Eric Boehm | 3.14.2025 4:10 PM Free Trade Why Some American Businesses Want More Tariffs A quick lesson about concentrated benefits and diffused costs Eric Boehm | 3.11.2025 12:05 PM Free Trade Trump's Trade War With America's Neighbors Is All Cost and No Benefit What did we learn from yet another escalation in the North American trade war? Not to do it again. Eric Boehm | 3.7.2025 12:02 PM Donald Trump In Speech to Congress, Trump Promises More Tariff Madness The tariffs Trump has already imposed on Canada, Mexico, and China will cost an estimated $142 billion this year—and he says more are on the way. Eric Boehm | 3.4.2025 10:36 PM More
Canada To Remain Canadian, Our Northern Neighbors Should Become a Little More American Canada long relied on the U.S. for protection. Now it needs to rediscover self-reliance. J.D. Tuccille | 3.31.2025 7:00 AM
Tariffs Challenging Trump's Tariffs Under the Major Question Doctrine Georgetown law Prof. Jennifer Hillman explains why Trump's tariffs are vulnerable to challenge on this basis. Ilya Somin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 3.29.2025 6:53 PM
Clean Energy We're Not Short on Power. We're Just Too Sanctimonious To Generate It. Northeastern states import massive amounts of electricity from Canada while strangling domestic energy production with regulations. Marc Oestreich | 3.27.2025 6:30 AM
Free Trade Don't Bail Out Farmers Again Farmers will bear the brunt of Trump's trade war. That's a good reason to avoid tariffs in the first place, not an excuse for another bailout. Eric Boehm | 3.25.2025 10:50 AM
Immigration Trump's War With the Courts Plus: A listener asks why some American libertarians seem to unquestioningly accept everything Vladimir Putin says. Andrew Sullivan | 3.24.2025 5:49 PM
Comedy Political Severance The work is mysterious and abhorrent. Andrew Heaton | 3.20.2025 11:00 AM Tariffs Trump Makes Canada Free Again Canada’s retaliation against Trump’s tariffs is wiping American alcohol off store shelves—and fueling an unexpected push to deregulate its own restrictive liquor laws. C. Jarrett Dieterle | 3.15.2025 7:00 AM Free Trade Howard Lutnick Doesn't Get To Decide What You Buy There is no "royal we" in the marketplace. Eric Boehm | 3.14.2025 4:10 PM Free Trade Why Some American Businesses Want More Tariffs A quick lesson about concentrated benefits and diffused costs Eric Boehm | 3.11.2025 12:05 PM Free Trade Trump's Trade War With America's Neighbors Is All Cost and No Benefit What did we learn from yet another escalation in the North American trade war? Not to do it again. Eric Boehm | 3.7.2025 12:02 PM Donald Trump In Speech to Congress, Trump Promises More Tariff Madness The tariffs Trump has already imposed on Canada, Mexico, and China will cost an estimated $142 billion this year—and he says more are on the way. Eric Boehm | 3.4.2025 10:36 PM More
Tariffs Trump Makes Canada Free Again Canada’s retaliation against Trump’s tariffs is wiping American alcohol off store shelves—and fueling an unexpected push to deregulate its own restrictive liquor laws. C. Jarrett Dieterle | 3.15.2025 7:00 AM
Free Trade Howard Lutnick Doesn't Get To Decide What You Buy There is no "royal we" in the marketplace. Eric Boehm | 3.14.2025 4:10 PM
Free Trade Why Some American Businesses Want More Tariffs A quick lesson about concentrated benefits and diffused costs Eric Boehm | 3.11.2025 12:05 PM
Free Trade Trump's Trade War With America's Neighbors Is All Cost and No Benefit What did we learn from yet another escalation in the North American trade war? Not to do it again. Eric Boehm | 3.7.2025 12:02 PM
Donald Trump In Speech to Congress, Trump Promises More Tariff Madness The tariffs Trump has already imposed on Canada, Mexico, and China will cost an estimated $142 billion this year—and he says more are on the way. Eric Boehm | 3.4.2025 10:36 PM
