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Trump 2.0 is a Runaway Dump Truck Only Voters Can Stop
By Will Marshall
Founder and President of the Progressive Policy Institute
for The Hill
President Trump is having a grand time playing chicken with the U.S. economy, risking our prosperity to force other countries to submit to his protectionist diktats. It’s put him right where he wants to be — at the center of world attention.
But his vendetta against trade is alarming U.S. consumers, businesses and investors, and reawakening public doubts that he knows what he’s doing.
Most Americans don’t see the point in picking fights with friendly trade partners like Canada. Private sector leaders are aghast at Trump’s on-again, off-again threats to impose suffocating “reciprocal” duties on all imported goods.
While pausing those tariffs to stop the U.S. bond market from melting down, Trump has imposed an equally arbitrary 10 percent tariff on most of our trading partners. He’s also gone nuclear on China, raising tariffs to an absurd 245 percent and goading Beijing into levying massive retaliatory duties on U.S. exports.
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For more than half a century, American leadership in space has been a cornerstone of national security, economic growth, and global influence. But according to a new PPI report from Mary Guenther, that leadership is on the verge of slipping away. China’s main space policy goal is to usurp the United States’ leadership position in space by 2045 — and it increasingly looks like a goal they’ll meet. This development would have dire implications for America’s national security, global position, and economic growth. The report delivers a stark warning: China is moving aggressively to overtake the United States in space — and unless policymakers act swiftly, America could lose its competitive edge within the next 5 to 15 years.
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How Populism Gives Youth Wings
By Claire Ainsley and Deborah Mattinson
for The New European
As Europe reels from the sudden gear shifts of the US government, it is tempting to see Donald Trump as an outlier, isolated in his endeavour to reshape the world order. But while Trump’s tariffs agenda has mixed support even among Americans, its radicalism has been enabled by a restlessness and yearning for change that is clearly present in Europe, too.
Many progressives took heart from the victory of Labour and Keir Starmer – for whom we have both worked – last July. There was some relief, too, at the election of Freidrich Merz’s CDU in Germany, which might have beaten the Social Democrats but at least denied success to the far right AfD and its troubling political agenda. Yet restlessness with “politics as usual” – seen to be offering the same tired answers – is gaining pace rather than abating.
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Staff Spotlight: Rachel Canter
Director of Education Policy
Rachel Canter is the Director of Education Policy for the Reinventing America’s Schools project at PPI. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English and History from the University of Pennsylvania and a master’s degree in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. In 2008, she founded Mississippi First and served as its Executive Director for over 16 years. During her tenure, Canter was the lead advocate of multiple watershed public education initiatives in Mississippi, including the passage and expansion of the state’s pre-K law, the passage of the state’s charter school law, the adoption of new state education standards and assessments, the passage of the Winter-Reed Teacher Loan Repayment program, the passage of the 2022 historic teacher pay raise, and the passage and funding of the 2024 student-centered public school funding formula, to name a few. She is a 2004 Mississippi Delta alumnus of Teach For America and from 2018-2023 served on the national board of the Policy Innovators in Education Network. She lives in Jackson, Mississippi, with her husband Andrew and their daughters, Elizabeth and Katherine.
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