Stephen Mihm

1 month ago | bloomberg.com | Stephen Mihm

The institution doesn't only belong to its namesake. (Bloomberg Opinion) -- In the wake of President Donald Trump’s firing of the Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, members of the House and Senate expressed outrage at this apparent infringement on their domain. It worsened matters when a Department of Justice official was appointed as acting librarian. The Library of Congress — as the name would suggest — is not a plaything of the president; it serves the legislative branch. All true.

1 month ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Stephen Mihm

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1 month ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Stephen Mihm

Donald Trump loves tariffs, and he has not hesitated to wield them frequently, if not indiscriminately. He’s used duties to target almost every nation, only to roll many of them back. Yet each retreat has often been followed by more tariffs, rattling markets and trading partners. It’s tempting to condemn this as more Trumpian excess, but Congress deserves a good share of blame for our current predicament.

1 month ago | bloomberg.com | Stephen Mihm

It wasn’t meant to be this way. (Bloomberg Opinion) -- Donald Trump loves tariffs, and he has not hesitated to wield them frequently, if not indiscriminately. He’s used duties to target almost every nation, only to roll many of them back. Yet each retreat has often been followed by more tariffs, rattling markets and trading partners. It’s tempting to condemn this as more Trumpian excess, but Congress deserves a good share of blame for our current predicament.

2 months ago | twincities.com | Stephen Mihm

In recent weeks, the nation’s most selective universities have been waking up to a new reality: the billions of dollars in federal funding that have long sustained them now come with strings attached. The Trump administration has put Columbia, Harvard, and Princeton on notice, threatening to withhold research funds unless they accede to political demands. How did the nation’s elite research universities end up in such an exquisitely vulnerable position?