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Facade of the Reichstag building in Berlin with the inscription “Dem Deutschen Volke” and blurred German soldiers in red berets passing by at night

Steel without velvet

Drawing from Paolo Falconio’s stark analysis, Germany’s rearmament is not a footnote in policy—it is a turning point in European geopolitics

A realistic collage made from torn newspaper clippings on a textured wall, featuring the bold words “Tariffs,” “Globalization,” and “Working class” in black serif font

Trade policy and tribes

What if trade policy is no longer about economics, but about identity, memory, and the fading promise of middle-class America?

Historic photograph of a 1946 Ford Motor Company assembly line showing workers building postwar vehicles under a large American flag inside a factory hall

Made in America, again? Not quite

Tariffs won’t bring back the factories of yesteryear, and clinging to that fantasy delays serious thinking about the economy we actually have

Political cartoon from the late 19th century depicting Uncle Sam as a rooster enforcing the Monroe Doctrine, keeping European powers (shown as chickens labeled “European Coop”) away from Latin American nations, portrayed as other chickens labeled with country names like Brazil, Venezuela, and Colombia

Monroe Doctrine reloaded

Washington revives its old neighborhood doctrine, casting China as a threat while Latin America weighs the costs of old alliances

Stacked shipping containers with “125%” painted prominently on their sides, symbolizing newly announced U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports under Trump’s trade policy

A 125% performance: The theatre of trade tariffs

As tensions escalate over trade tariffs, China’s response to Trump’s moves seems more like a well-rehearsed act in a global theater. But beneath the drama, a real strategy is emerging

Multiple textile label rolls with fabric composition and care instructions, all prominently marked “Made in China,” highlighting China’s continued role in global manufacturing despite new U.S. tariffs

Chinese firms waltz past Washington’s trade walls

Chinese firms respond to sweeping U.S. tariffs with strategic overseas moves, flexible production, and minimal U.S. market exposure—while politely handing the import bill back to American consumers

Row of empty metal silos on a quiet U.S. soybean farm under partly cloudy skies, symbolizing halted agricultural exports amid trade tensions with China

Trump’s tariffs send markets into a tailspin

Commodities nosedived and Wall Street bled red as Trump’s tariffs provoked full-scale retaliation from China, deepening global recession fears and upending energy and agricultural markets