S. Roache and Lawrence O. Gostin (Georgetown): The Untapped Power of Soda Taxes: Incentivizing Consumers, Generating Revenue, and Altering Corporate Behavior. Why Turkey is heading for economic meltdown under Erdogan. Tronc’s smash and grab: How the media conglomerate is gouging its own newspapers to pay off investors and executives. 2020 Democrats band together to call for Puerto Rico debt cancellation. Remember, Democrats: Progressive policies are popular. Jia Tolentino on Refinery29, Kylie Jenner, and the denial underlying millennial financial resentment. After asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy ends, what awaits Julian Assange? FBI would’ve been derelict not to use Steele dossier for the Carter Page FISA warrant.
Jared Bernstein on how “unfair trade” means different things to different people. It’s way too soon to declare Trump’s trade war over.
