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AXIOS (Ben Berkowitz) - U.S.-Canada trade talks collapse, massive tariffs to take effect

Trade talks between the U.S. and Canada fell apart late Friday night, and both sides said steep new tariffs will go into effect. Why it matters: It's an unprecedented breakdown in relations with the second-largest U.S. trading partner. Catch up quick: Trump last month threatened to invoke Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 to hit a slew of Canadian goods with additional 50% duties, including alcohol, hockey equipment, cement and dairy products. - No president has ever used Section 338 to impose tariffs since it became law in 1930. - The tariffs were scheduled to take effect at 12:01 a.m. ET Wednesday. The administration carved out key Canadian exports, including energy, potash and critical minerals, from the new tariffs. - On…

Trade talks between the U.S. and Canada fell apart late Friday night, and both sides said steep new tariffs will go into effect. Why it matters: It's an unprecedented breakdown in relations with the second-largest U.S. trading partner. Catch up quick: Trump last month threatened to invoke Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 to hit a slew of Canadian goods with additional 50% duties, including alcohol, hockey equipment, cement and dairy products. - No president has ever used Section 338 to impose tariffs since it became law in 1930. - The tariffs were scheduled to take effect at 12:01 a.m. ET Wednesday. The administration carved out key Canadian exports, including energy, potash and critical minerals, from the new tariffs. - On…Open

THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Harrison Berger) - Nothing Left (Except Corporate-Friendly Identity Politics)

Evan Barker’s debut book exposes the rot hollowing out the Democratic Party. The post Nothing Left (Except Corporate-Friendly Identity Politics) appeared first on The American Conservative .

Politics Nothing Left (Except Corporate-Friendly Identity Politics) Evan Barker’s debut book exposes the rot hollowing out the Democratic Party. One of the more striking developments in American politics over the past three decades has been the transformation of the Democratic Party from a big-tent movement built around working-class Americans into an elite-driven institution obsessed with diversity, equity, and inclusion. In Nothing Left: Confessions of a Democratic Operative, Evan Barker, a former fundraiser for the party, offers readers a behind-the-scenes look at that evolution.   Barker has always been someone at home on the…Open

THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Jude Russo) - Barbarism Begins at Home

Can abortion opponents turn the tide against Massachusetts-style radicalism? The post Barbarism Begins at Home appeared first on The American Conservative .

Abortion Barbarism Begins at Home Can abortion opponents turn the tide against Massachusetts-style radicalism? (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Massachusetts’s Gov. Maura Healey on August 10 signed a new law giving doctors the prerogative to perform late-term abortions based on their own medical judgment in the Bay State, where previously abortion had been limited to the 24th week of pregnancy barring medical exceptions explicit in the statute. The usual suspects (shirts) hailed this measure as a blow for freedom, health, human empowerment, The Cause of Women, and all that jazz. The usual suspects (skins)…Open