Colin Grabow Citing alleged unfairness in the current trading system, President Donald Trump appears to be laying the groundwork for the adoption of a...
Clark Packard In early February, the ever-protectionist Trump administration announced it would immediately eliminate the “de minimis exemption” for low-value shipments arriving from China, effectively...
Chris Edwards and Yasmeen Kallash-Kyler In a seeming reversal, the Trump administration is rumored to be considering ending the US Postal Service’s quasi-independence and...
Michael F. Cannon That sentence (headline), which appears in a report Rep. Chip Roy (R‑TX) issued this week, is the wisest, most responsible sentence...
Patrick G. Eddington It’s rare for a sitting federal chief executive to unilaterally order a mass declassification of historical records. Yesterday, President Trump did...
Colin Grabow As the Biden administration readied its exit last week, the US Trade Representative’s office released a report that found China’s subsidies and other market-distorting...
Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett The California wildfires have been devastating—not only in their human and environmental toll but in their mounting economic costs....
Alex Nowrasteh Shortly after being inaugurated, President Trump issued an executive order that purports to restrict birthright citizenship. The only authority he invoked for...
Jeffrey Miron A long-standing concern about immigration is that it might reduce job opportunities for native workers: In 1882, the US government passed the...