On Friday, hours after the Supreme Court ruled that President Donald Trump had no tariff authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), he invoked a different…
Read more The Supreme Court’s tariff decision vindicates the rule of law and the separation of powersToday, The Dispatch published my new article (gift link) on the Supreme Court’s tariff decision, entitled “The Supreme Court Spurns a Presidential Power Grab.” Here’s an excerpt: On Friday,…
Read more My New Dispatch Article on the Tariff Decision, its Implications – and a Key Issue the Court Did Not ResolveThe 2020s, so far, have been one long and often painful lesson in what happens when policymakers tell economists to shut up and go away. From the COVID-19…
Read more The big lesson of the 2020s? Don’t ignore the economists.While campaigning, President Donald Trump said, “We’re a nation in decline.” Now that he’s president, the left agrees. “We are witnessing the collapse and implosion of the American…
Read more The real reason golden ages collapse—and how the U.S. can avoid itThis week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Matt Welch are joined by Reason senior editor Robby Soave to share the stories they believe didn’t receive sufficient media attention in 2025. Each panelist…
Read more What the media didn’t tell you in 2025The Trump administration is finally confronting the complicated reality of its complex and costly tariff policies. Oh, not when it comes to collecting those tariffs. The administration is…
Read more Trump’s economic adviser says tariff refunds would be ‘very complicated’ and unlikelyThe negotiations that remade the North American Free Trade Agreement were, as one participant put it, a series of “near-death” experiences. For more than a year, starting in…
Read more Will Trump Torpedo North American Trade?Asked in April about the potential consequences of hiking tariffs on nearly all American imports, President Donald Trump delivered a memorably blunt assessment. “Maybe the children will have…
Read more Trump’s $1.1 billion tax hike on toys and gamesWhen the Trump administration’s lawyers go before the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to argue a crucial case that will determine the limits of presidential tariff authority, they…
Read more In tariff case, Trump’s attorneys can’t decide if foreign investment is good or bad for AmericaMelkon Khosrovian recalls waiting for a shipment of bottles that were due to arrive amid the mad rush that marked the days before President Donald Trump’s tariffs took…
Read more ‘We proudly make things here’: California distillery owner says SCOTUS should dump Trump’s tariffsFormer second gentleman Doug Emhoff says American competitiveness is facing great strain from the Trump administration’s repeated power grabs and its tariff policies. At the Inc. 5000 Conference…
Read more Doug Emhoff Says Trump’s ‘Authoritarian Slant’ is Bad For Founders, IP ProtectionThe Gipper loved him some free trade. Photo: The Independent One of Donald Trump’s most interesting political achievements has been to force a Republican Party that had embraced…
Read more Trump Is Attacking Canada When He Should Be Attacking ReaganBy hiking tariffs on nearly all imports to the United States earlier this year, President Donald Trump effectively imposed one of the largest tax hikes in American history—and…
Read more Trump’s planned farm bailout should require congressional approvalThe alcohol industry recently dodged an attempt to smuggle a neo-Prohibitionist agenda into the U.S. Dietary Guidelines revisions. While the industry was able to breathe a sigh of…
Read more Tariffs are starting to crush America’s small liquor businessesThe U.S. economy is already feeling the effects of Trump’s tariffs, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) projects that things could get worse. The OECD’s…
Read more Trump’s tariffs have already hurt the economy—and the pain is only beginningNA Today, the Supreme Court decided to review V.O.S. Selections, Inc. v. Trump, our case challenging President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs. The case was filed by the Liberty…
Read more Supreme Court Will Hear Our Case Challenging Trump’s Tariffs – and Two Other Related CasesNA Earlier this week, the Trump administration filed a petition for certiorari urging the Supreme Court to review the Federal Circuit decision in the case challenging the president’s…
Read more The Government’s Cert Petition to the Supreme Court in Our Tariff Case – and Our ResponseThe White House celebrated Labor Day by announcing that President Donald Trump’s “protectionist trade policies have helped drive more than $8 trillion in new U.S. investment.” The accompanying…
Read more The White House says Trump’s tariffs have raised $8 trillion in revenue. That’s not even close.After the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled against his tariffs last week, President Donald Trump repeatedly condemned the decision, which he preposterously warned will…
Read more The rationale for the federal circuit’s ‘radical left’ tariff decision is fundamentally conservativeIn ruling against the sweeping tariffs that President Donald Trump purported to impose under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the…
Read more The federal circuit’s tariff ruling highlights the audacity of Trump’s power grab