Miles Bryan

Philadelphia

Philadelphia Bureau Chief at Today, Explained

Philadelphia Bureau Chief, @today_explained from @voxmedia. Previously: @whyynews, @WBEZ, @WYPublicRadio.

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Articles

Trump promised his tariffs would create jobs. They’re already destroying them.

1 week ago | vox.com | Miles Bryan

Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley was once synonymous with America’s industrial might. The region was known for its booming manufacturing economy anchored by companies like Mack Trucks and Bethlehem Steel, the latter of which employed over 30,000 workers at its peak in the 1950s. But manufacturing began to struggle in the 1970s and collapsed by the turn of the century. Bethlehem Steel went bankrupt in 2001 (the site now houses a casino).
This senator met with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. He tells us what he saw.

2 weeks ago | vox.com | Miles Bryan

Since being deported to El Salvador last month, Kilmar Abrego Garcia has had very little contact with the outside world — something that Democratic Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen tried to change. Last week, Van Hollen flew to El Salvador to meet with Abrego Garcia, an undocumented immigrant who the Trump administration has admitted was deported from Maryland in error.
Why Trump’s tariffs don’t seem to have China

4 weeks ago | vox.com | Sean Collins |Miles Bryan

The United States and China are locked in an economic war. They’ve levied tit-for-tat tariffs on each other, and there’s little sign of detente. President Donald Trump said in a statement Tuesday that “The ball is in China’s court. China needs to make a deal with us.
Would you pay more for an American-made TV? This influential thinker thinks you will.

1 month ago | vox.com | Noel King |Miles Bryan

Most mainstream economists agree that the massive tariffs Donald Trump is imposing on most of the United States’s trading partners are a bad idea — that they will make the economy weaker and inflation worse. Not Oren Cass.
Hasan Piker has a plan to rescue young men from the right

1 month ago | vox.com | Miles Bryan |Sean Rameswaram

The boys are alt-right. At least that’s what polling and voting data suggests. Men under 25 were nearly 20 percent more likely to vote for Donald Trump than women in that age group in the 2024 election, revealing a gender gap far larger than those in older generations. Democrats have been freaking out about their young men problem. They’re starting podcasts. They’re talking about sports. They’re cursing more.
Hasan Piker on why the boys are all right (wing)

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Miles Bryan

3 hours agoThe Trump administration is getting blowback for confirmed and potential errors in its rush to deport hundreds of men to El Salvador last month. On Monday night, immigration officials admitted to deporting a Maryland man to El Salvador due to an "administrative error." Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, …
The Trump economy is looking great - in Europe

1 month ago | vox.com | Miles Bryan

Cast your mind far, far back, to November of 2024. Trump had just been elected. Americans were divided and unsteady. But the stock market wasn’t: It was thrilled. Stocks hit all-time highs on the news, and the value of the dollar surged. The vibes were very different across the Atlantic. European stocks fell, driven by fears of Trump’s tariffs, as did the value of the euro.
One big reason for fewer babies: the phones?

1 month ago | vox.com | Noel King |Miles Bryan

All across the world, people are having fewer children. The birth rate is declining quickly in countries ranging from the United States to Finland to Mexico and Turkey. Fertility data used to be a fairly esoteric concern. Not anymore. Vice President JD Vance talks about it regularly, Elon Musk calls it civilization’s greatest threat. There’s even a convention for “pronatalists,” Natalcon, taking place later this month in Texas.
Richard Hanania interview on DEI, MAGA, and Trump

2 months ago | vox.com | Noel King |Miles Bryan

Four years ago, Richard Hanania was a little-known right-wing intellectual, one of many posters building a brand with tweets and Substack posts attacking “wokeness” and other conservative bugbears. But in the middle of 2021, one of his ideas took off.
Russ Vought, OMB director, is Trump’s holy warrior

2 months ago | businessandamerica.com | Miles Bryan

There are a lot of main characters in the second Trump administration. Donald Trump himself, of course, but also Elon Musk, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and JD Vance. Russell Vought does not make that list. The soft-spoken bureaucrat was recently confirmed to lead the Office of Management and Budget, not exactly a sexy post. His name isn’t well-known outside of policy circles. But it probably should be.