Tariffs Tariffs Near 107 Percent Threaten to Pull Italian Pasta Brands From American Shelves The Commerce Department’s new antidumping duties could double the cost of imported Italian pasta—hurting consumers more than producers. Jacob R. Swartz | 11.12.2025 12:30 PM
Trump Administration Tariff Stimulus Checks Are an Unserious Idea Trump is living in a fiscal fantasy land. Eric Boehm | 11.11.2025 10:35 AM
Supreme Court This Foreign Policy Precedent Might Aid Trump's Tariffs at SCOTUS For the justices, the question is just how much deference the president deserves. Damon Root | 11.11.2025 7:00 AM
Inflation Trump Seems Very Confused About 'Affordability' The president says the affordability crisis is over, but he's also promising huge government checks. And he doesn't know how much gas costs. Eric Boehm | 11.10.2025 11:30 AM
Tariffs Trump's Lawyer at the Supreme Court Cites a Letter from James Madison That Says Tariffs Are Taxes During oral argument at the Supreme Court, Solicitor General D. John Sauer cited a letter by James Madison that completely undermines the administration’s case that its tariffs are legal. Jack Nicastro | 11.7.2025 12:45 PM
Supreme Court The Justices Are Skeptical of the Trump Tariffs, But Are They Skeptical Enough to Strike Them Down? Some observations from yesterday's argument in Learning Resources v. Trump. Jonathan H. Adler |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.6.2025 4:56 PM
Emergency Powers 'Emergency' Has Become Washington's Favorite Loophole. It's Cost Taxpayers $15 Trillion. Over the last decade, roughly one in every 10 dollars of budget authority has worn an emergency tag. Veronique de Rugy | 11.6.2025 2:20 PM
Supreme Court Justices Don't Buy Tariff Argument Plus: Outrage at Heritage, air traffic might get throttled, and more... Liz Wolfe | 11.6.2025 9:30 AM
Supreme Court On Tariffs, It Was Gorsuch vs. Trump at SCOTUS The legal challengers to Trump's tariffs had a good day in court. Damon Root | 11.6.2025 7:00 AM
Free Trade Trump's Attorney Concedes: His Legal Theory Would Let a President Tax Foreign Cars To Combat Climate Change Justice Neil Gorsuch got Solicitor General D. John Sauer to admit one "likely" outcome, if the Supreme Court upholds Trump's tariffs. Eric Boehm | 11.5.2025 3:40 PM
Tariffs Trump's Economic Fallacies Are Legally Relevant in His Tariff Case Trade deficits are not a "national emergency," and the president's import taxes won’t reduce them. Jacob Sullum | 11.5.2025 12:01 AM
Tariffs As Tariff Case Heads to the Supreme Court, Trump's Strongest Argument Has a Fatal Flaw The International Emergency Economic Powers Act doesn't grant the president the power to regulate imports with tariffs. Even if it did, these tariffs would still be unconstitutional. Jack Nicastro | 11.4.2025 3:40 PM
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
Free Trade Trump's Tariff Chaos Crushes Board Game Makers: 'The U.S. Is Our Least Trustworthy Trading Partner' The Supreme Court will hear a case next week challenging the legality of President Donald Trump's "emergency" tariffs. Eric Boehm | 10.31.2025 12:00 PM
Tariffs These Small Business Owners Explain How Trump's Tariffs Are More of an 'Existential Crisis' Than COVID President Donald Trump says his tariffs protect American businesses, but more than 700 small businesses represented by We Pay The Tariffs beg to differ. Jack Nicastro | 10.30.2025 11:55 AM
Free Trade 'We Proudly Make Things Here': California Distillery Owner Says SCOTUS Should Dump Trump's Tariffs Scenes from a trade war Eric Boehm | 10.28.2025 11:45 AM
Tariffs Trump's Tariff Tantrum Proves He Shouldn't Have That Power The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in November on whether Trump's use of tariffs is constitutional. Joe Lancaster | 10.27.2025 12:01 PM
Tariffs 'Fraudulent' Use of Reagan Plus: Argentine election results, whether Zohran's running mostly on economic issues, and more... Liz Wolfe | 10.27.2025 9:30 AM
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
Tariffs Study Finds Tariffs Cost Consumers More Than the Government Takes In The new report examined prices of French wine after Trump imposed tariffs in 2019. Joe Lancaster | 10.23.2025 2:15 PM
Free Trade Trump Wants Higher Beef Prices and Also Lower Beef Prices The president somehow believes that tariffs can deliver wins for both producers and consumers. It is maddening and nonsensical. Eric Boehm | 10.23.2025 12:00 PM
Republican Party What Happened to the Republican Party? Former Sen. Jeff Flake discusses how Trump reshaped the GOP, why populism betrayed conservative values, and why he believes the system can still be reformed. Nick Gillespie | 10.22.2025 11:00 AM
Free Trade Donald Trump and Oren Cass Promised Tariffs Would Bring Prosperity. Both Are Now Confronting Reality. The Trump administration is reportedly looking to ease some tariffs on goods not produced in the U.S., as the consequences of a universal tariff scheme are becoming impossible to ignore. Eric Boehm | 10.21.2025 12:45 PM
Free Trade Trump's New Tariffs on Furniture Will Be Costly, and Americans Will Pay The evidence is clear that we are paying more, U.S. firms have lower margins, and exports are collapsing in flagship industries. Veronique de Rugy | 10.16.2025 2:30 PM
MAGA Even Marjorie Taylor Greene Thinks Trump's Immigration and Trade Policies Go Too Far “We have to do something about labor, and that needs to be a smarter plan than just rounding up every single person and deporting them,” the Georgia congresswoman said. Jacob R. Swartz | 10.15.2025 4:50 PM
Free Trade Trump Says Tariffs Are About National Security. Pentagon Officials Say They Need a Tariff Exemption. It turns out that free trade is essential for the military too. Eric Boehm | 10.15.2025 12:20 PM
Free Trade Trump's Planned Farm Bailout Should Require Congressional Approval The Trump administration has already claimed the power to raise taxes without congressional approval. Now it is going to spend money that way too. Eric Boehm | 10.3.2025 12:35 PM
Tariffs Here's Why Trump's Plan To Tax International Films Won't Work The president’s movie tariff proposal faces several legal and logistical challenges to implementation. Jacob R. Swartz | 10.1.2025 5:00 PM
Tariffs Tariffs Are Starting To Crush America's Small Liquor Businesses Trump’s trade war is hitting wineries, distillers, and distributors with product shortages and soaring costs—leaving customers to pick up the tab. C. Jarrett Dieterle | 9.27.2025 7:00 AM
Free Trade Agriculture Secretary Rollins Promised Tariffs Would Help American Farmers. Now She Says They Need a Bailout. The bailout would simply redistribute wealth from American businesses and consumers to farmers. Here's a better idea: end the tariffs. Eric Boehm | 9.26.2025 12:23 PM
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
Tariffs Trump's Tariffs Have Already Hurt the Economy—and the Pain Is Only Beginning The OECD just published its projections for American growth, and they're grim. Jack Nicastro | 9.24.2025 4:43 PM
Inflation Americans Want Lower Costs, but Inflation Just Hit Its Highest Mark Since January Inflation hit its highest level since January, with prices rising 0.4 percent in August. Eric Boehm | 9.11.2025 10:30 AM
Tariffs Supreme Court Will Hear Our Case Challenging Trump's Tariffs - and Two Other Related Cases The cases will be considered on an accelerated schedule. Ilya Somin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 9.9.2025 5:52 PM
Free Trade Trump's Tariffs Face a Major 'Major Questions' Problem at the Supreme Court The same legal theory that tripped up Joe Biden's student loan scheme could also sink Donald Trump's tariffs. Eric Boehm | 9.8.2025 1:20 PM
IEEPA The Government's Cert Petition to the Supreme Court in Our Tariff Case - and Our Response We agree the Court should take the case and resolve it as quickly as possible, to minimize the harm caused by the illegal tariffs. Ilya Somin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 9.5.2025 9:26 PM
Tariffs MAGA Economics Is Losing Trump promised that protectionism and immigration enforcement would be good for the economy. The latest jobs report tells a different story. Eric Boehm | 9.5.2025 2:05 PM
Immigration Sen. Eric Schmitt Echoes Bernie Sanders With Attack on Foreign Worker Program The Republican and the socialist agree: Free trade and H-1B visas are bad news. Autumn Billings | 9.5.2025 1:50 PM
Free Trade Trump Says Tariffs Make Us Richer. So, Why Are Most Countries With High Tariffs So Poor? The U.S. is risking its liberty and its prosperity with such high tariffs. J.D. Tuccille | 9.5.2025 7:00 AM
Tariffs American Manufacturing Needs Relief From Trump's Tariffs Manufacturing has been in decline for six months, nearly the exact amount of time since Trump's new trade wars began. Eric Boehm | 9.4.2025 7:30 AM
Tariffs The White House Says Trump's Tariffs Have Raised $8 Trillion in Revenue. That's Not Even Close. The administration attributed the $8 trillion figure both to new investment and to tariff revenue. So which is it? Neither. Jack Nicastro | 9.2.2025 5:20 PM
Tariffs The Rationale for the Federal Circuit's 'Radical Left' Tariff Decision Is Fundamentally Conservative Donald Trump's claim that the appeals court ruled against him for partisan or ideological reasons is hard to take seriously. Jacob Sullum | 9.2.2025 1:55 PM
Tariffs The Federal Circuit's Tariff Ruling Highlights the Audacity of Trump's Power Grab Seven judges agreed that the president's assertion of unlimited authority to tax imports is illegal and unconstitutional. Jacob Sullum | 9.1.2025 4:45 PM
Labor Help Workers by Breaking Down Barriers to Labor Mobility Labor Day is a great time to remember that we can make workers vastly better off by empowering more of them to vote with their feet, both within countries and through international migration. Ilya Somin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 9.1.2025 12:49 PM
Tariffs Federal Circuit Rules Against Trump's Massive IEEPA Tariffs in Our Case Challenging Them In a 7-4 ruling, the en banc court upheld trial court ruling against all the challenged tariffs. The scope of the injunction against them remains to be determined. Ilya Somin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 8.29.2025 8:42 PM
Tariffs Federal Appeals Court Says Trump's Tariffs Are Unlawful, Allows Them To Remain in Place Trump went "beyond the authority delegated to the President," the court ruled, but it vacated an injunction that could have provided immediate tariff relief to American businesses. Eric Boehm | 8.29.2025 7:10 PM
Tariffs Trump's Tariffs and Immigration Policies Are Why Your Amazon Packages Are So Expensive and Will Take Forever I got a pair of shoes delivered from Asia for a reasonable price. Trump just ended the exemption that makes that transaction possible. Jack Nicastro | 8.29.2025 6:20 PM
Free Trade Trump's Tariff Spin Is Putting Republicans in an Awkward Spot Should they brag about raising taxes, like the White House is doing, or try to distance themselves from those same tax increases? Eric Boehm | 8.28.2025 3:45 PM
