Economy / Gimmicks like Trump’s economically ignorant, politically jingoistic and personally self-serving tariff agenda, won’t help workers in the US or abroad. John Nichols The free-trade deals that Democratic and Republican presidents negotiated in the 1990s and 2000s devastated American manufacturing.

When it comes to the market and economic crises that have suddenly been sprung upon us by US President Donald Trump’s Tariff Tantrum, sitting on your hands should be at least one of the options countries — particularly African nations — should consider.