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1 week 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.
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2 weeks ago | 
apnorc.org | Sean Collins
April 9, 2025As the Trump administration continues to enact its agenda, a new AAPI Data/AP-NORC Poll finds many AAPI adults disapprove of how President Trump is handling a host of key policy issues, including the economy and trade (71%), managing the federal government (68%), and government spending (63%). AAPI adults are more likely to express disapproval on each of these issues than the general population, according to a March 2025 AP-NORC Poll.
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2 weeks ago | 
asianamericans.einnews.com | Sean Collins
As the Trump administration continues to enact its agenda, a new AAPI Data/AP-NORC Poll finds many AAPI adults disapprove of how President Trump is handling a host of key policy issues, including the economy and trade (71%), managing the federal government (68%), and government spending (63%). AAPI adults are more likely to express disapproval on each of these issues than the general population, according to a March 2025 AP-NORC Poll.
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1 month ago | 
vox.com | Sean Collins |Gabrielle Berbey
The Trump administration has shuttered a number of federal agencies, and ordered another tranche closed last Friday. Among them was Voice of America — a news outlet founded to help the Allies fight the Nazis that still publishes and broadcasts today. Or did, until Saturday, when its employees found themselves unable to go to work.
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1 month ago | 
vox.com | Zack Beauchamp |Sean Collins
The US and Canada are meant to be the best of friends, but they’re in the midst of a pretty ugly fight. It began with President Donald Trump’s ascent to the White House, when he began referring to his outgoing Canadian counterpart as “Governor Justin Trudeau of the Great State of Canada.” Things escalated from there, with heated meetings and calls leading to the US enacting (then retracting, then enacting, then retracting) tariffs on its northern neighbor, and Canada responding in kind.
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1 month ago | 
businessandamerica.com | Sean Collins
A Vox reader asks: Can you explain how tariffs work? How will imposing tariffs impact the everyday lives of Americans? The tariffs President Donald Trump promised on Canada, Mexico, and China are now in force: each country must now pay a 25 percent tariff on all goods exported to the US (with a lower rate for some Canadian energy products), while there’s an additional 10 percent tariff on Chinese goods on top of previous duties. Mexico has promised retaliation.
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1 month ago | 
vox.com | Sean Collins |Kyndall Cunningham |Alex Abad-Santos
The Oscars are upon us again. This year, one of the Best Picture contenders has been dogged by controversy, while in several other categories, the race feels a lot more wide open than in past years. In order to get a better understanding of what to expect, and to gain some insight into how the Oscars work, I turned to two of Vox’s culture experts, Kyndall Cunningham and Alex Abad-Santos.
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1 month ago | 
vox.com | Sean Collins
Germany had a major election last weekend, one that left its center-left ruling party, the Social Democratic Party ruling party in the dust, and the conservative Christian Democratic Union ascendant once again. The country’s likely next leader, Friedrich Merz, took to the airwaves after the results were announced and proclaimed that it was time for not just a new Germany, but for a new Europe.
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1 month ago | 
vox.com | Sean Collins |Umair Irfan
Tens of thousands of federal workers have been fired recently, and more may be in danger of being let go. Umair Irfan — a climate change, energy policy, and science correspondent for Vox — has been specifically focused on layoffs looming over the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of late. His reporting presents a great lens for understanding the firings, and he and I discussed what the NOAA can tell us about the effect federal reductions have on everyday Americans.
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2 months ago | 
vox.com | Sean Collins
The spate of federal firings that stretched throughout last week escalated last Friday, and continued through the holiday weekend. Nearly all of those fired were “probationary” employees, a status usually conferred on new workers, those that switch agencies, and the recently promoted, that provides fewer protections against removal. Reports have been unclear about exactly how many people were fired and where.
