Though widely opposed if not despised – including by many Republicans – the Trump Administration’s trade policy is delivering impressive results, writes Henry Olsen at Commonplace. Tariffs will likely haul in US$360 billion this fiscal year – while recession is nowhere in sight. Growth is strong, wages are rising, unemployment is barely 4 percent (vs. Canada’s 7 percent) and stock markets are setting records. Tariffs, Olsen suggests, could become the new orthodoxy.

Racial Quotas by Algorithm
Allum Bokhari, writing in The American Conservative, illuminates a Colorado state bill claiming to create “a shield against ‘algorithmic discrimination’” that would force AI companies to generate outputs based on government-imposed racial, and other identity-based, quotas. As with past variants of reverse discrimination, asserts Bokhari, Colorado’s AI bill amounts to thinly disguised leftist ideology aimed at institutionalizing the very harm it claims to ameliorate.


