Andrew Prokop

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Andrew Prokop

2 hours agoA stock-market swoon, or even a recession, might not frighten him, but the prospect of a 2008-style meltdown apparently still does. Only yesterday, President Donald Trump was mocking Republicans nervous about his global trade war as “Panicans.” In a defiant speech to the National Republican …

2 weeks ago | vox.com | Andrew Prokop

Donald Trump has been angry about trade for nearly half a century — and throughout all that time, he’s kept on making the same complaint. The problem, he says, is that the US has trade deficits with other countries. He believes that, if we buy more from a country than they buy from us, the other country is “” us. And he wants to “beat” them instead.

3 weeks ago | vox.com | Andrew Prokop

Perhaps the biggest common theme of Donald Trump’s second term is that his administration has aggressively used federal power to punish those deemed to be its — or his — enemies. Some foreign students who criticized Israel have had their visas revoked and have been whisked into ICE detention. Venezuelan nationals with tattoos — some likely members of a foreign gang, some likely not — have been deported to El Salvador and imprisoned there.

4 weeks ago | vox.com | Andrew Prokop

By withholding federal funds and threatening investigations, President Donald Trump has tried to bend universities to his will. Now, he’s doing something similar: trying to get states to change their election rules. In an executive order Tuesday, Trump made what amounts to a series of demands on states to change their election laws and policies. For one, he wants states to be more strict at requiring proof of citizenship for voter registration.

1 month ago | vox.com | Andrew Prokop

The second Trump administration has shown remarkable aggression in abruptly canceling hundreds of millions of dollars in research grants at elite universities — in an effort to force them to make major policy changes in line with the president’s politics. Trump officials revoked $400 million in research funding to Columbia University (illegally, per experts). They’ve also paused $175 million in funds to the University of Pennsylvania. That’s likely just the start.