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A more robust welfare state won't change the fact that tradeoffs exist, even for relatively wealthy Americans who choose to have kids.

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100 years on, T.S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men is a poem for our populist moment

In 1927, at 38 years of age, the expatriated American poet T.S. Eliot was baptised and confirmed in the Anglo-Catholic tradition. The celebrated author of The Waste Land (1922) – that literary paragon of abject nihilism – had pivoted away from the liberal, philosophical underpinnings of his upbringing and education,…

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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.

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Americans No Longer Trust Trump To Handle Inflation

The president has spent six months promising to make everything more expensive, and polls show that Americans have noticed.

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Tariffs Are Keeping Interest Rates High

The Federal Reserve is unwilling to lower interest rates because "there will be some inflation from tariffs coming," Jerome Powell told a Senate committee.

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The insult JD Vance jokingly used on interviewer who called him an ‘intellectual’

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JD Vance cracks that interviewer is an ‘a**hole’ for calling him an ‘intellectual’

‘I come here for free, and you insult me,’ vice president shot back

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Why is Trump considering raising taxes on millionaires?

Tax-cutting once unified the Republicans. Now, that sacred cow might get killed

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Trump's 'America First Antitrust' Policy Will Put America Last

The Justice Department is pursuing an antitrust policy inspired by Oren Cass and members of the New Right.

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Trump Is Giving Everyone What They Want In the Dumbest Way Possible

Dynamists, protectionists, hawks, and doves are seeing their policy goals realized in the most bungling and incompetent fashion imaginable.

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Trump's Dramatic Crossroads Between Protectionism and Dynamism

The GOP faces a choice about how to move forward.

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Trump's North American Trade War Accomplished Nothing

Canada and Mexico agreed to keep doing things they were already doing, and Trump revealed that he cannot be trusted with unilateral tariff power.

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

The incoming administration is grappling with uncomfortable political consequences of the tariffs Trump wants to impose.

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How Much Would an American-Made Toaster Actually Cost?

A lot more than Oren Cass and J.D. Vance want you to think, and Americans wouldn't like the tradeoffs necessary.

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Activist with far-right ties fronts Marco Rubio-linked anti-immigration effort

Nate Hochman recorded several videos for America 2100, a thinktank linked to the Republican Florida senator

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Beyond 'childless cat ladies,' JD Vance has long been on a quest to encourage more births

JD Vance repeatedly expressed alarm about declining birth rates as he launched his political career with a bid for the U.S. Senate in Ohio

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Trump's Proposed Tariffs Would Cost Families $1,700 Annually

"The scale of trade barriers proposed by candidate Trump is unprecedented."

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Marco Rubio Is Wrong About Industrial Policy

Breaking down Rubio's factually flawed and logically incoherent call for more government involvement in the economy.

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From the left and the right, these two thinkers are upending Washington’s neoliberal consensus - Roll Call

Progressive Matt Stoller and conservative Oren Cass are unlikely allies on a lot of things — and they believe the times are on their side.

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Banning TikTok Would Give the Feds Way Too Much Power

"It's a disturbing gift of unprecedented authority to President Biden and the Surveillance State," said Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.).

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Not All Policy Is Industrial Policy

Just say no to empowering government actors to put their thumbs on the scale on behalf of certain sectors.

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Owner of Kansas Newspaper Dies Amid 'Shock and Grief' After Police Raid

Plus: New Zealand libertarianism, Barbie economics, and more...

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Barbie Girls Now Live in a Much Wealthier Barbie World

The average working woman in 2023 earns enough money to buy a Barbie doll every 33 minutes. In 1959, it took nearly two hours.

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The Solution to Chinese Censorship Is Not Show Hearings

Government bullying won’t fix censorship caused by government bullying.

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