“So far China has been relatively strident, but the reality is that they are on the back foot,” says Eswar Prasad, senior professor of international trade policy.

A new book from Qi Wang (EAP) explores how digital culture—specifically internet and social media use—shapes human memory.

“There is a deep irony in Trump claiming unfair treatment of the American economy at a time when it was growing robustly while every other major economy had stalled or was losing growth momentum,” says Eswar Prasad, senior professor of international trade policy.

“Unilateral U.S. strikes on Mexican soil would be devastating for the bilateral relations and could be detrimental to the objective of fighting drug cartels,” says Gustavo Flores-Macías, professor of government.

In this broadcast clip, Nicholas Mulder, assistant professor of history, discusses the history of tariffs.

Jacqueline Gerson, assistant professor of biological and environmental engineering, discusses mercury pollution accumulated in trees.

Einaudi CRADLE cofounder and former World Bank chief economist Kaushik Basu discusses U.S. “reciprocal” tariffs with the Times of India. 

Sarah Kreps, director of the Tech Policy Institute, discusses TikTok.

“The era of increasingly free and unfettered trade is coming to a crashing end as the Trump tariffs lead to a surge of protectionist measures around the world,” says Eswar Prasad, senior professor of international trade policy.

Sarah Kreps, director of the Tech Policy Institute, discusses TikTok still functioning despite bipartisan consensus about the application's risk to national security.