Ideas

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Wall Street Blew It

Investors discounted everything Trump has ever said about trade and tariffs. We’re all going to pay for that mistake.

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Make Smuggling Great Again

Canada’s ultimate retaliation for Trump’s tariffs will be to turn ordinary Americans who cross the border to shop for cheaper goods into latter-day bootleggers.

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Defying the Courts Will Backfire

The public has not responded kindly to other politicians who have tried this in the past.

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Trump’s Jewish Cover Story

The administration claims to be protecting Jews while advancing an agenda that most Jews oppose.

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Trump’s Salvadoran Gulag

To be deported, one does not need to be a drug dealer or a terrorist; apparently, having tattoos and being Venezuelan is enough.