No limits? Why the United States could be on the verge of a constitutional crisis
Donald Trump and his closest advisers have taken steps to circumvent the constraints upon the executive authority of ...
The last time the US raised tariffs this much it made the Great Depression way worse
Trump's tariff hike mirrors the 1930 Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, which exacerbated the Great Depression and led to a major shift ...
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Trump Says Tariffs Could Have Stopped the Great Depression
Donald Trump claimed Wednesday that the United States entered the Great Depression as a result of turning its back on the ...
Grist on MSN1dOpinion
How Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs could kill American innovation
The U.S. has used tariffs to protect industry since 1789. That approach decimated American shipbuilding and could do the same ...
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Trump declares "Economic Independence Day" for the United States with tariffs of 20% on Europe or 54% on China
He punishes each country with "reciprocal measures," approximately half of what he calculates each partner or bloc charges ...
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Opinion: What history tells us about presidential third terms. 'Term limits are fundamentally undemocratic'
As Trump hints about future, a CT presidential scholar reviews past U.S. presidents who have held third terms.
The Times and Democrat9dOpinion
Best Congressional check on judges who overstep authority
In second Trump admin, faced 68 injunctions from Dem-appointed judges. Proposed check on activist judges by Congress.
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Higher education should fight Trump’s bullying attempts to silence free speech
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging ...
Why is Trump rewriting US economic history? Anyone?
By the numbers, the US today is an extremely wealth country, as former Sen. Pat Toomey, a Republican, explained on Fox ...
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Liberation Day and Trump tariffs are not the end of trade. It's only the beginning
Our economists say the invisible hand will take care of us. But they ignore what is right in front of them. Manufacturing remains the most productive sector of the American economy.
The History and Framework of US Tariffs
A discussion of the origins of tariffs in the US as well as the formation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the use ...
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The End of An Error at the Federal Trade Commission
The executive power shall be vested in the president of the United States of America,” the first clause of the first section of Article II of the Constitution dictates. Not a fr ...