Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by William L Anderson

“Fresh off her 2018 upset New York Democratic congressional primary win, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (better known as AOC) and Massachusetts Sen. Edward Markey announced they were launching an ambitious legislative plan called the Green New Deal. While people who had a grounding in economic thought found this new initiative to be naïve at best and destructive at worst, nonetheless it has energized American progressives and other environmental true believers. … this kind of largesse needs legislation behind it and the true believers—led by AOC herself—settled on the infamous (and hilariously named) Inflation Reduction Act. In fact, AOC served as a cheerleader for what was the cornerstone measure of the Biden administration, one that supposedly would create nine million jobs and totally transform the US economy. However, the promised transformation never occurred.” (04/24/25)

https://mises.org/mises-wire/whatever-happened-green-new-deal

Source: Washington Monthly
by Joel Dodge

“In a 2023 New York Times column, Ezra Klein coined the term ‘everything-bagel liberalism’ to describe the phenomenon of projects that liberals favor getting weighed down by seemingly ancillary requirements liberals impose on them. He noted, for instance, that in California, strict labor and environmental standards embedded in various pieces of legislation passed by the Democratic legislature over the years have made it too costly and time-consuming to build subsidized housing for the homeless. This same problem, he warned, would imperil one of the centerpieces of the Biden administration’s economic policy: the CHIPS and Science Act. Klein praised the aims of this flagship legislation to reshore semiconductor manufacturing with a $39 billion fund to attract companies to the United States.” (04/24/25)

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/04/24/in-defense-of-everything-bagel-liberalism/

Source: Orange County Register
by Ben Bayer

“Donald Trump’s April 2 tariffs paralyzed businesses that rely on international trade, wreaked havoc with financial markets, and injected new economic uncertainty into everyone’s life. Far from offering ‘liberation,’ Trump’s executive orders embody an arbitrary lawlessness that threatens the individual liberties of the entrepreneurs who create goods and services so many of us depend upon. In an effort to stand up for the rights of aggrieved small businesses, two recent lawsuits argue that the executive orders lack statutory authority. … It may be prudent for businesses facing closure to seek relief from these tariffs by asking the courts to overturn the executive orders as lawless. But in truth, the IEEPA itself is lawless at its heart. Its key provisions are ripe for the abuse of tyrants opposed to individual freedom.” (04/24/25)

https://archive.is/zT87K

Source: Foreign Policy
by Emma Ashford

“Vladimir Lenin once noted that there are decades where nothing happens, and weeks where decades happen. By that standard, the first hundred days of Donald Trump’s presidency have comprised at least 20 years of foreign-policy change. The administration’s ‘move fast and break things’ approach to foreign policy has been consistent only in its chaos. … how are we to make sense of the chaos? It’s clear that the second Trump administration is aiming for change — not inertia — in U.S. foreign policy, though the direction of that change is unclear. Still, there are four explanatory models worth considering as we try to explain its choices so far.” (04/24/25)

https://archive.is/KV9TK