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The Dumbest Front in the Trade War
The Dumbest Front in the Trade War

Let me tell you about my friend up in Canada. She’s not some corporate shark gaming loopholes in trade law. She’s an artisan—sews intricate patterns into a quilt. Her friend paints mugs with flowers so delicate they’d make your grandma’s china blush, and sells them on...

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Aluminum Tariffs Spark a Borderline Farce
Aluminum Tariffs Spark a Borderline Farce

Let me tell you a little story about what happens when politicians who don’t understand the real world try to fix it with a sledgehammer. A while back, President Donald Trump slapped a 50% tariff—that’s a fancy word for tax—on aluminum coming into the U.S. from other...

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How the States Are Rewriting the Map with 2020’s Ink
How the States Are Rewriting the Map with 2020’s Ink

So here we are again, folks—watching the political map get redrawn not because we counted new people, but because some folks in expensive suits counted new opportunities. Texas fired the opening salvo, no surprise there. The Lone Star State, ever the ambitious...

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Catholic School and the Party That Forgot Its Soul
Catholic School and the Party That Forgot Its Soul

Back in the day, before motorcades and scandal headlines, before Bill Clinton played sax and Newt Gingrich decided to choke the soul out of public service, Henry Cisneros and I went to the same Catholic school on the West Side of San Antonio. He was in fourth grade. I...

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Submarines, Showboating, and the Ghosts of August
Submarines, Showboating, and the Ghosts of August

Well, hell. Here we go again—dancing on the nuclear tripwire with the grace of a rhinoceros in a tutu. Today, Donald Trump—commander of all that he surveys, including apparently basic naval doctrine—announced with great fanfare that he’s sending two nuclear submarines...

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Isaac Cubillos

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