Olivier Knox

Washington, D.C.

Senior National Correspondent at U.S. News and World Report

Senior national political correspondent, U.S. News & World Report. Something retweets something something. Views here are my own, not my employer's. Duh.

Articles

Trump Explores Sending U.S. Citizens to Prison in El Salvador

1 week ago | usnews.com | Olivier Knox

President Donald Trump says his attorney general, Pam Bondi, is looking into whether it would be legal for him to expel U.S. citizens who commit certain violent crimes to El Salvador, where he has shipped hundreds of alleged immigrant gang members to be held indefinitely in a notorious prison.
Brace for More Trump Tariffs and Chaos

1 week ago | usnews.com | Olivier Knox

Not only does President Donald Trump's trade war with China show no sign of ebbing, with Beijing refusing (at least for now) to come to the table, but it appears on track to escalate with new tariffs on medicine and consumer electronics, pushing prices ever skyward. Trump has sown chaos in global commerce and financial markets with a chaotic on-again, off-again approach to imposing duties on products from ... basically the entire world.
Trump’s Trade War Is Far From Over

1 week ago | usnews.com | Olivier Knox

President Donald Trump blinked. That’s not a bad thing. Days after imposing large tariffs on virtually every U.S. trade partner – and an island chain inhabited chiefly by penguins – Trump paused most of the duties in response to a stock market collapse and turmoil in the bond market that presaged long-term economic pain at home. No, it wasn’t a clever plan, no matter how the White House wants to spin it. Trump publicly admitted the bond market forced his hand.
Trump’s Trade War Is About Politics as Much as Economics

1 week ago | usnews.com | Olivier Knox

Every first-year economics student learns to use math and graphs to show that free trade is unquestionably the best strategy for a large, rich country like the United States. The lines intersect, without any human emotion, creating a box usually labeled “gains from trade.” So the country as a whole is more prosperous. But good economics professors also point out that whether workers, or investors, or producers, or consumers, benefit from those gains is a political question, not an economic one.
What Does Victory in Trump’s Trade War Look Like?

2 weeks ago | usnews.com | Olivier Knox

President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on imports from virtually the entire world, including major allies, are coming online. Big countries are threatening retaliation. Some trade partners are already suing for peace. Markets are crashing. Recession fears are rising. How does it all end? When does it all end? Questions abound ...
5 Weird Things About Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ Tariffs

2 weeks ago | usnews.com | Olivier Knox

President Donald Trump’s much vaunted “reciprocal tariffs” aren’t reciprocal and aren’t really about tariffs – they’re about his fixation on trade deficits with other countries. (With apologies to Voltaire.)That’s just one of the weird aspects of the president’s announcement of new duties on virtually the entire world, running between 10% and 50%. The news sent markets crashing – U.S. stocks in particular – and fueled warnings that America is teetering toward a recession.
Americans Are Into Foreign Trade. Tariffs? Not So Much.

3 weeks ago | usnews.com | Olivier Knox

You wouldn’t know it from listening to President Donald Trump railing against the world allegedly ripping us off for decades, but international trade is quite popular with Americans in 2025. Trump has announced the United States will impose sweeping new tariffs on … pretty much every U.S. trading partner in the world, from obvious-and-frequent-target China – the world’s second-biggest economy – to the tiny islands of St. Pierre et Miquelon, population about 5,000.
Trump Pick for Joint Chiefs Chairman Signals Apolitical Approach

3 weeks ago | usnews.com | Olivier Knox

President Donald Trump’s pick to be his senior military adviser, retired Lt. Gen. Dan Caine, said something important at his confirmation hearing. I don’t mean his oblique criticism of Trump’s top national security aides for discussing tactical details of upcoming strikes on Houthi fighters in Yemen over the publicly available, encrypted-but-unclassified messaging app Signal, though that made some news.
A Trump Tariff Glossary Ahead of 'Liberation Day'

3 weeks ago | usnews.com | Olivier Knox |Tim Smart

President Donald Trump is expected to stroll into the White House Rose Garden on Wednesday and announce sweeping tariffs on most, if not all, of America’s trading partners, upending decades of commerce that have helped make the U.S. economy the richest in the world. My advice? Find yourself a reporter who focuses on covering economics. Our own Tim Smart, for instance.
Trump (Finally) Accepts Tariffs Can Raise U.S. Prices

3 weeks ago | usnews.com | Olivier Knox

After years of wrongly insisting that other countries pay the tariffs he imposes, thereby enriching America, President Donald Trump now seemingly accepts that those duties are ultimately paid by U.S. consumers in the form of higher prices. “A lot of people like to say (a tariff is) a tax on us,” Trump said during an August rally in Pennsylvania. “No, no, no. It’s a tax on a foreign country. It’s a tax on a country that’s ripping us off and stealing our jobs.