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americanaffairsjournal.org | Lee Jones |Julius Krein |Lee Jones
What meaning—if any—can we discern in President Trump’s decisions to impose, and then pause, tariffs on the entire world? And what does this mean for the future of world order? At the time of writing, Trump seems to be retreating from the most aggressive tariff actions, promising a new round of trade “deals,” including with China. Nonetheless, the economic and geopolitical shockwaves unleashed by “liberation day” have yet to subside.
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americanaffairsjournal.org | William Cahill |Jacqueline N. Deal |Julius Krein
China’s rise as a strategic adversary and maritime power has finally triggered much-needed introspection and shaken America out of a multigenerational hibernation. The U.S. maritime industrial base (MIB) faces a Chinese counterpart hundreds of times larger in both shipbuilding capacity and commercial orders. China’s penetration of U.S. ports through Xi Jinping’s “military-civil fusion” strategy—exploiting dual-use technologies such as smart cranes—gives the Chinese MIB an additional edge.
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americanaffairsjournal.org | Paul Casinelli |Julius Krein
REVIEW ESSAYBoom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnationby Byrne Hobart and Tobias HuberStripe Press, 2024, 304 pagesThe New Lunar Society:An Enlightenment Guide to the Next Industrial Revolutionby David A. MindellMIT Press, 2025, 288 pagesTyler Cowen caused quite a stir when he published The Great Stagnation in 2011, claiming America achieved success by eating “all the low-hanging fruit of modern history” and was in for a period of stagnation.
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americanaffairsjournal.org | Emmet Penney |Julius Krein
REVIEW ESSAYDemocracy in Power:A History of Electrification in the United Statesby Sandeep VaheesanUniversity of Chicago Press, 2024, 400 pagesThe American grid is in trouble. For years, our country has been retiring reliable power plants and building unreliable wind and solar resources. Moreover, most of the country’s power gets allocated in complex power markets where decisions are made beyond the public eye.
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americanaffairsjournal.org | Richard D. Kahlenberg |Julius Krein
The Democratic Party has lost its way. A party whose very purpose has been to fight for working families has forfeited their trust and confidence. The losses are most obvious among white working-class voters. In 1960, John F. Kennedy won white working-class (noncollege) voters but lost white college graduates by two to one.
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