Outside the Beltway

We are about to find out the degree to which trade wars are good and easy to win.

It’s more than competition but less than war.

The elite consensus that free trade would bring them around is gone.

The Biden Administration wants clean energy but only for some.

Prices are coming down but they’re way higher than they were.

“Moderate” is up, “Liberal” is down, and “Conservative” is static. What does it mean?

The Constitution in times of extreme crisis.

New polling shows that the American public does not support the President and his trade war.

After more than a year of Trump’s trade war, the trade deficit, which he promised to reduce, has increased.

Donald Trump isn’t just admiring dictators now, he’s acting like one.

A considerable number of Republican have effectively left our party over Donald Trump. Should we go all the way?

The Supreme Court issued a significant ruling on Monday that could make it easier to buy and sell alcoholic beverages across state lines.

President Trump’s tariffs are having a noticeable, and negative, impact on global economies. The President doesn’t seem to care.

The early frontrunner for the Democratic nomination is drawing fire from multiple fronts. It may destroy his candidacy before it begins.

A WaPo writer takes a round-about path to demonstrate the obvious.

Not good, not easy to win.

Notwithstanding President Trump’s tariffs, America’s trade deficit hit a record level last year.

Despite the President’s claims, the American steel industry isn’t doing well at all.

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in a case that could make it easier for consumers to buy and ship wine and other adult beverages across state lines.

One hundred years after the end of World War One, the forces that led to it are waking up from a long slumber.

After nearly a year, Trump’s trade policies are having their inevitable negative impact inside the United States.

As expected, President Trump announced a new round of tariffs against Chinese goods yesterday, and China quickly retaliated.

Jobs growth in August was slightly better than expected, but still nothing overly impressive.

A powerful political network is distancing itself from the Trump-dominated Republican Party.

The GOP and Donald Trump are indistinguishable now. But it’s not clear what that means.

Trump spent much of Tuesday praising a dictator who has murdered and imprisoned millions of people. Then he returned to attacking the democratically elected leader of one of our closest allies.

President Trump is setting off another trade war, this time with some of America’s closest and most important allies.

The transformation is complete. The GOP is now the party of Donald Trump. If you’re sticking around and not speaking out against what the President represents, you’re part of the problem, not part of the solution.

President Trump has announced that he’ll be imposing significant tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. This is an unwise decision.

President Trump has alienated America’s allies and friends, and they are acting accordingly.

John McCain has been standing out from his fellow Republicans largely by unleashing on President Trump, and it is unlikely to end anytime soon.

Without mentioning his successor by name, former President Bush delivered a stinging rebuke to Trump and Trumpism.

Donald Trump’s first overseas trip went about as badly as you’d expect it would.

Republicans held on to Mike Pompeo’s seat in the House, but the outcome was closer than many expected.

More stepping back from free trade and the established global economic order.

Yet more incoherent economic policy from the Tweeter in Chief. A border tax will mean that Americans will undoubtedly pay for at least part of the Great Wall of Trump™.

In a break with President-Elect Trump, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan said Congress would block any effort to increase tariffs.

The idea that Donald Trump has gotten his racialized rhetoric from libertarians is simply errant nonsense. The libertarian view, broadly speaking, is not defined by Murray Rothbard, Llewellyn Rockwell, and Ron Paul and those who share their views. This is but a small and even fringe group of what could be called the libertarian community.

Donald Trump engages in some nice post hoc ergo propter hoc by implying that the decline in manufacturing jobs in North Carolina is due to NAFTA. Ignoring that other factors are more likely playing a far greater role in the loss of manufacturing jobs.

It is a misguided and foolish attempt to try and buy votes without appearing to buy votes.

There’s nothing compasssionate about protectionism.

On the left and the right, there’s been a resurgence of a long-ago discredited economy theory.

Some of the GOP’s top donors still aren’t sold on Donald Trump.

A US-EU free trade zone is a no-brainer. But the devil is in the details.

Bill Keith built a successful business making solar-powered ceiling fans. The President’s trade policies are in the process of destroying it.

Everyone’s talking about jobs again. And it’s not a pretty picture.

For the first time since the end of World War II, the GOP is wrestling with two diametrically opposed visions of foreign affairs.