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Brace Yourself: Trump’s Trade War is About to Make Americans Poorer

By Will Marshall
Founder and President of the Progressive Policy Institute
for The Hill

Move over, Smoot and Hawley. President Trump has anointed himself America’s greatest protectionist, and he’s launching a global trade war to prove it.

On Wednesday, Trump slapped a minimum 10 percent tariff on all imports, plus additional “reciprocal” tariffs on 60 other countries that have the temerity to sell us things we want to buy. He dubbed it “Liberation Day” to mark the freeing of Americans from the supposedly oppressive burden of trading with others.

Steeped in nostalgia for America’s industrial heyday, Trump imagines he can unilaterally restructure the world’s economy. The president can sign all the executive orders he pleases, but he can’t throw history into reverse or repeal basic economics.
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Antitrust Remedies and U.S. V. Google: Putting The Consumer Back Into the “Fix”
By Diana Moss
Vice President and Director of Competition Policy

Democratic and Republican administrations have brought and litigated antitrust cases involving some of the largest U.S. digital and technology companies over the last five years. These cases allege that companies engaged in strategic business practices to maintain or extend their monopolies, squeezing out competition in markets such as online search, smartphones, eCommerce, and social media. Now, the oldest of these monopolization cases, U.S. v. Google, has almost run its course.

The U.S. v. Google case spans three political administrations. The “Trump 1.0” Department of Justice (DOJ) brought the case in 2020, the Biden DOJ successfully litigated it, and the “Trump 2.0” DOJ will bring it to a conclusion. After a major win for the government in 2024, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (District Court) is now considering the Biden DOJ’s proposed remedies for restoring competition in the markets for online search.
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Elan Sykes, Director of Energy and Climate Policy: How Tariffs Could Scramble Trump’s LNG Plans
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Ed Gresser, Vice President and Director for Trade and Global Markets: Trump Says Global Trade Is Unfair. Does He Have a Point?
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I Believe in Campus Diversity. That’s Why I Helped End Affirmative Action.
By Richard Kahlenberg

Director of Housing Policy and the American Identity Project
for Politico Magazine

In November 2020, with the Covid-19 pandemic raging, I took off my mask and sat down nervously in the witness stand at the federal district courthouse in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

I was there to testify as an expert witness for Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), a conservative group challenging racial preferences at the University of North Carolina. (SFFA and I were also involved in a parallel suit against Harvard University.) I would be testifying that racial student body diversity is very important to achieve on college campuses, but that, according to my research, UNC-Chapel Hill could create an integrated campus without using race — if it jettisoned its preferences for privileged children of alumni and faculty and gave a meaningful admissions boost to economically disadvantaged students of all races.
 
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Ed Gresser: Trump tariffs have nothing at all to do with ‘reciprocity’
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Ben Ritz & Alex Kilander: Trump’s “Liberation Day” Comes at Great Cost to Taxpayers
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Staff Spotlight: Alix Ware

Director of Health Care Policy

Alix is the Director of Health Care Policy for the Progressive Policy Institute. In this role, she focuses on finding solutions to the rising cost of health care and decreasing access to health care to ensure all Americans can receive the care they want and need.

Prior to joining PPI, Alix was the Director of Health Policy at the National Alliance for Care at Home where she tracked and prepared materials related to hospice and palliative care regulations, policies, alternative payment models, and data trends. Prior to her work at the Alliance, she provided support to local health departments in the areas of public health law, ethics, and health in all policies at the National Association of City and County Health Officials.

Alix holds a Master of Public Health and a Juris Doctor from the University of Pittsburgh. She also holds a Bachelor of Science in community health from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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