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Tariffs have been a staple of Trump's trade policy in both of his presidential terms. When politicians propose a tariff, they make it sound like this simple tax rate because they are presented as universally applied. However, reality intervenes in the form of political discretion.

During his 2024 presidential campaign and throughout his second term, President Trump's rhetoric on immigration has been framed around border control and illegal immigration. On the surface, he was about unauthorized entry, strengthening the border, and concerns about crime and lawlessness. In that respect, his response was straightforward: get illegal immigration under contr...

In the United States, we have been told a simple story about inflation: the pandemic hit, the government intervened, and prices went up. As I argued before, quantitative easing from the Federal Reserve combined with high levels of g...

I have spent a lot of time here at Libertarian Jew discussing immigration policy. In concept, I believe that immigration should work more like free trade: people moving across borders, creating value, and making both sides better off through voluntary exchange. In a U.S.-specific context, I still believe in that ideal that immigration is welfare-enhancing. However, tha...

Conversion "therapy" has long occupied a fraught space in public debate, and rightfully so. Historically, it referred exclusively to therapeutic efforts at changing an individual's sexual orientation. Many critics argued that not only they are ineffective, but they actively harm the patient. More recently, the term conversion "therapy" has expanded to include gender identity....