No emergency means there is no lawful basis for Trump’s imposition of the tariffs, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. Nor is there any constitutional basis for the underlying statute.
Tariffs & the US Constitution
Category: Economy
Vijay Prashad: Beyond a World of Debt
With the churning of the global order, there might now be an opportunity to create new financial strategies for development.
Trump Tariffs Will Concentrate Wealth Even More
Trump’s trade war is a class war designed to weaken progressive taxation, writes Omar Ocampo.
Jeffrey Sachs: Trump’s Impoverishing Tariffs
The rest of the world isn’t ripping off the U.S. The American trade deficit is the result of chronically large budget deficits resulting from tax cuts for the rich combined with trillions of dollars wasted on useless wars.
Moscow Nights — and Days
Andrew P. Napolitano says that in his interviews with them, two of Putin’s closest confidants showed appreciation for Trump’s intended “reset” of U.S.-Russian relations.
Vijay Prashad: Washington’s IMF Stranglehold
In the deeply undemocratic institution, the U.S. effectively holds a veto over any major changes and molds policies according to its whims.
Chainsaw Diplomacy
If Elon Musk is using Javier Milei’s Argentina as inspiration for his own mission with the Department of Government Efficiency that bodes extremely poorly for the U.S., writes Alan MacLeod.
WATCH: ‘Workers Strike Back’
Chris Hedges, Jill Stein and Kshama Sawant spoke at the Workers Strike Back conference in Seattle, Washington, on Saturday.
The Chris Hedges Report: ‘Virtue Hoarders’
“The culture war was always a proxy economic war” — Catherine Liu discusses her new book, Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class.
Public Banking in a Time of Climate Crisis
From Los Angeles’ fires to Asheville’s floods, disasters are intensifying and demand resilience that megabanks can’t provide, writes Trinity Tran.