| | By Made by History / Produced by Olivia B. Waxman | This week President Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs, a move that will dramatically affect the global economy. While the U.S. has previously deployed tariffs to bolster specific industries, Trump's embrace of tariffs on a global scale introduces new risks, as Yilin Wang explains in Made by History. Using tariffs to promote industrial policy in the early republic helped the U.S. attain self-sufficiency in certain sectors, but exacerbated domestic political tensions. Ambitious industrial policy through the 20th century produced mixed results. But more recently, aggressive protectionist policies threaten to create inefficiencies and trade distortions that undermine global value chains. The resulting uncertainty and instability could dramatically shape consumer choices and the economy at large. | |
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| | | | | |  | What the Children's Bureau Teaches Us | The U.S. Children's Bureau promoted its programs and established a broad network to create political capital. |
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|  | A Century-Long Battle Over the Census is Brewing | In the 1920s, nativist lawmakers introduced "citizen-only" bills. Then, a bipartisan coalition emerged to fight back. |
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|  | Jazz Is Profoundly American | Elizabeth Alexander explains why jazz music must be preserved. |
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|  | Why Trans People Must Prove a History of Discrimination | From criminal cross-dressing laws to bans on open military service, trans people have long faced discrimination. |
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| | | | | This week in 1961: "Guilt and anxiety" |  | The Mar. 31, 1961, cover of TIME |
| TIME |
| "It is among writers and other editorial workers that Raymond B. Cattell and Ivan H. Sheier of the University of Illinois have found the highest anxiety ratings, based on complex personality tests. That they come just ahead of the Navy's underwater demolition teams (frogmen) is probably due more to their higher verbal abilities than to on-the-job hazards. Air pilots in training have, naturally, more anxiety than business executives; priests have less but this may be a reflection of their having found a certainty of faith and of a rigid routine that conceals if it does not catharize anxiety. Convicts have far less than average. This reflects both routine and the high prison population of conscienceless psychopaths. Least anxious of all, on the Cattell-Sheier scale, are university administrators." |
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| | This week in 1978: John Travolta |  | The April 3, 1978, cover of TIME |
| Douglas Kirkland |
| "Saturday Night Fever has started Travolta along a yellow-brick show-biz road that reaches out of sight, raised discomania to a national craze and made superstars of a likable rock group called the Bee Gees…An evening at a favorite Japanese restaurant on Sunset Strip is likely to be interrupted by autograph hunters, who receive a friendly greeting but sometimes no signature. 'Autographs are sort of impersonal,' he told some fans recently, extending his hand, 'but I'd like to meet you.' A lot of the fans are young and pretty, but Travolta resists temptation. 'Before I was famous, I had what you would call one-night experiences,' he reflects. 'But I find these are much more exciting in my fantasies than in reality.'" |
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| This week in 1991: Policing |  | The April 1, 1991, cover of TIME |
| Mark Peterson |
| "Frustrated by the failure of standard methods to reduce crime, more than 300 cities and towns nationwide — including Boston, Houston and San Francisco — are adopting the concept of community policing….Herman Goldstein, professor of criminal law at the University of Wisconsin: 'The neighborhood support gives police a greater sense of confidence and authority, which reduces their need for using force. If police officers feel they don't have the authority, the power, to handle a situation, they're more likely to resort to brute force.' Referring to the L.A.P.D.'s beating of Rodney King, Goldstein says, 'It's incomprehensible that a police officer imbued with community policing would engage in that type of behavior.'" |
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