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Trump walls of China

North America's 'NAFTA 4.0' promotes workers' rights, environmental protection – and reduces China's regional influence

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Just a left-wing ‘America First’?

Trump's Democratic challengers aren’t offering any coherent and genuinely internationalist alternatives to his foreign policy

By Claus Leggewie

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What’s at stake in the Democratic primaries

While the Democrats differ less on policy than one might think, they do have opposing ideas on how to win against Trump

By Sheri Berman

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Trump is abusing his tariff power, too

Donald Trump abuses US trade policy for his own interests and without the approval of Congress. That's definitely illegal

By Paul Krugman

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Who can defeat Trump?

Sanders, Biden, Warren? With the race in Iowa too tight to call, there's just one winner so far: American social democracy

By Harold Meyerson

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Trump gets his trade deal, China gets the win

China has suffered short-term pain from the trade war, but it stands to gain in the long term

By Eswar Prasad

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Elizabeth Warren’s bold ideas don’t go far enough

What America needs are policies to shape the direction of technological development and restore workers' bargaining power

By Daron Acemoglu

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Trump’s bad. Sadly, he’s not alone

How Washington's climate of confusion and cynicism allows Trump to prosper

By Maureen Dowd

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GDP is broken, but we can fix it

The statistics keep on rising, but they don’t track the well-being of most Americans. It's time for an adjustment

By David Leonhardt

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The day the Trump boom died

Last spring, Trump thought he had a clear path to re-election: the booming economy. What a difference a few months make

By Paul Krugman