Tag: NAFTA
Can Democrats win back Rust Belt voters?
New research from the Center for Working-Class Politics shows that economic populists are popular, but the Democratic label is a drag.
The disintegration of North America
Director Michael Moore was trying to satirize the U.S. penchant for invading other countries.
Why relentless enforcement will make or break the new NAFTA
Because if Mexico fails to relentlessly enforce the USMCA, the new trade agreement will be as big a failure as the old.
Where’s the beef in NAFTA 2.0?
“MAGA,” blusters Donald Trump — Make America Great Again!
America’s ranching families, however, would like Trump to come off...
Whether it’s the new NAFTA or the old NAFTA, it serves...
NAFTA displaced 2 million Mexican family farmers as U.S. agricultural products, sometimes subsidized, flowed tariff-free south of the border.
An historic opportunity to transform trade when we stop NAFTA II
We can stop NAFTA II and replace corporate trade with a new model that raises working conditions and protects the environment.
What the G20 showed us about the current global order
These right wing leaders, show that much of the world, rather than embracing extended democracy and social liberalism, is backsliding into some kind of authoritarian nationalism.
A turning point for the global economy
The USMCA deal, also known as NAFTA 2.0, is a lot of things. But it is not free trade.
Big oil cheers Trump’s ‘new NAFTA’ but Mexico could complicate things
Mexico’s recently elected president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has yet to comment on the USMCA's energy-related provisions.
Do bullies always win?
Trump's bullying worked with Canada, has half-worked with Iran and North Korea, but has had nothing but malign impact on Israeli-Palestinian relations.
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Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."
Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future
Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.
Anti-ICE protesters sentenced to decades as Trump turns ‘antifa’ label into prosecution tool
The Prairieland case transformed a July 4 protest outside a Texas immigration jail into a terrorism prosecution, with sentences from 30 to 100 years and warnings of a new federal playbook against left-wing dissent.
Alaska governor vetoes single-use polystyrene foam foodware ban
For now, polystyrene products will remain legal for use by commercial food vendors statewide.