Eduardo Porter
@eduardoelreportero.bsky.social
I write "Being There" on Substack and a column for The Guardian. Veteran of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, The Washington Post. Author of "The Price of Everything" and "American Poison." https://substack.com/@eduardoelreportero
What does it mean to be a loyal American in Trump’s America? Am I American enough? Check out my new Substack 👉🏼https://eduardoelreportero.substack.com/p/am-i-american-enough
Am I American enough?
What does loyalty to America mean in the age of Trump?
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November 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
What does it mean to be a loyal American in Trump’s America? Am I American enough? Check out my new Substack 👉🏼https://eduardoelreportero.substack.com/p/am-i-american-enough
Trump thought pushing racial hostility was enough to maintain his grip on the electorate. It wasn't. He had to deliver on the economy, and he didn't. My latest in @guardian
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Trump’s focus on race backfires as voters punish economic failings
The Maga base rallied on inflation and racial grievances, but stressing race over the economy is costing the US president
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Trump thought pushing racial hostility was enough to maintain his grip on the electorate. It wasn't. He had to deliver on the economy, and he didn't. My latest in @guardian
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
The EU's carbon border tax is a great idea! The first step towards building an enforcement tool to get countries to trim carbon emissions. It must resist pressure by other countries to kill it. eduardoelreportero.substack.com/p/lay-off-eu...
Europe's levy on carbon polluters is a good idea
CBAM is an essential tool to combate climate change. Other countries should replicate it, not atack it.
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November 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The EU's carbon border tax is a great idea! The first step towards building an enforcement tool to get countries to trim carbon emissions. It must resist pressure by other countries to kill it. eduardoelreportero.substack.com/p/lay-off-eu...
Let the A.I. bubble pop! Maybe then we can design a more humane A.I.
eduardoelreportero.substack.com/p/the-coming...
eduardoelreportero.substack.com/p/the-coming...
The Coming A.I. Apocalypse
Here's me hoping this tech-fueled stock market bonanza turns out to be a bubble.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Let the A.I. bubble pop! Maybe then we can design a more humane A.I.
eduardoelreportero.substack.com/p/the-coming...
eduardoelreportero.substack.com/p/the-coming...
A reflection from Giuliano da Empoli on American politics: Democrats stopped trying to do the tough stuff. substack.com/home/post/p-...
Democrats stopped trying to do the tough stuff
Giuliano da Empoli on the transformation of American politics
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November 13, 2025 at 7:48 PM
A reflection from Giuliano da Empoli on American politics: Democrats stopped trying to do the tough stuff. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Gringo, pay attention! Sharp words about the harsh reality that US digital nomads and joy-seekers in Mexico are ignoring, from @eduardoelreportero.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/eduardoe...
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November 13, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Gringo, pay attention! Sharp words about the harsh reality that US digital nomads and joy-seekers in Mexico are ignoring, from @eduardoelreportero.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/eduardoe...
Indeed! No better monument to commemorate contemporary America 👉 Dying Shopping Malls Are the Roman Ruins of Our Civilization www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/m...
Dying Shopping Malls Are the Roman Ruins of Our Civilization
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November 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Indeed! No better monument to commemorate contemporary America 👉 Dying Shopping Malls Are the Roman Ruins of Our Civilization www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/m...
"Gringo go home!" There is something weird about all the young Americans partying in Mexico City while Mexicans are dying in the United States.
eduardoelreportero.substack.com/p/gringo-pay...
eduardoelreportero.substack.com/p/gringo-pay...
Gringo, pay attention!
Your government is killing Mexicans, as you sip your mehz-cahl-eetuh
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November 12, 2025 at 3:35 PM
"Gringo go home!" There is something weird about all the young Americans partying in Mexico City while Mexicans are dying in the United States.
eduardoelreportero.substack.com/p/gringo-pay...
eduardoelreportero.substack.com/p/gringo-pay...
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Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.
November 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.
Message for all you people who bought carbon offsets to fly to the climate summit in Brazil: your personal carbon footprint is irrelevant. eduardoelreportero.substack.com/p/forget-abo...
Our personal choices will not save the planet
It's a tool designed to get corporations off the hook
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November 11, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Message for all you people who bought carbon offsets to fly to the climate summit in Brazil: your personal carbon footprint is irrelevant. eduardoelreportero.substack.com/p/forget-abo...
Who gets hurt when Trump's crazy policymaking bumps the dollar from its perch as global reserve currency? My latest for The Guardian www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Trump’s dollar delusion: how trade war risks ending the US’s ‘exorbitant privilege’
Trump’s team flirts with weakening the dollar, threatening US influence, low borrowing costs and global stability
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Who gets hurt when Trump's crazy policymaking bumps the dollar from its perch as global reserve currency? My latest for The Guardian www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Trump believes he can win by constantly stoking the racial grievances of his predominantly White voting base. He is discovering it is not enough. open.substack.com/pub/eduardoe...
Does Inflation Beat Racism?
Trump thinks he can win by stoking the racial grievances of his base. He is discovering it is not enough.
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November 7, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Trump believes he can win by constantly stoking the racial grievances of his predominantly White voting base. He is discovering it is not enough. open.substack.com/pub/eduardoe...
Will We All Become Chinese Roadkill? My latest on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/eduardoe...
Will We All Become Chinese Roadkill?
You've heard about the "China Shock" to manufacturing workers in the U.S.? That’s nothing compared to the devastation China will unleash in much of the developing world
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November 6, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Will We All Become Chinese Roadkill? My latest on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/eduardoe...
Liberal democracy is designed to deliver incremental change. Voters want a revolution. Check out my latest on Substack: Is liberal democracy past its sell-by date? open.substack.com/pub/eduardoe...
Is liberal democracy past its sell-by date?
From MAGA America to Claudia Sheinbaum's Mexico, impatience with liberal democracy is cresting across the political spectrum
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November 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Liberal democracy is designed to deliver incremental change. Voters want a revolution. Check out my latest on Substack: Is liberal democracy past its sell-by date? open.substack.com/pub/eduardoe...
How do we adjust to our new world order? Can we steer it in a less violent, authoritarian direction? I hope to take these themes on in my new Substack, Being There. Please join me there open.substack.com/pub/eduardoe...
Welcome to "Being There"
A conversation about where the world is going.
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November 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
How do we adjust to our new world order? Can we steer it in a less violent, authoritarian direction? I hope to take these themes on in my new Substack, Being There. Please join me there open.substack.com/pub/eduardoe...
President Trump wants us to accept that he can do literally anything he wants simply by invoking a national emergency. The Supreme Court now has a shot at stopping him. My latest 👇
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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The president who cried tariffs: will the US supreme court challenge Trump’s trade war?
The US high court will hear arguments on whether Trump’s erratic imposition of global tariffs is legally valid
www.theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:34 PM
President Trump wants us to accept that he can do literally anything he wants simply by invoking a national emergency. The Supreme Court now has a shot at stopping him. My latest 👇
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Canadian retaliation? Trump won't like it if Ottawa removes the 100% tariff on Chinese EVs. www.thewirechina.com/2025/10/26/c...
Canada Set to Side With China On EVs - The Wire China
Canada is considering dropping 100 percent tariffs on imports of EVs from China, in a potentially major break with the U.S. approach.
www.thewirechina.com
October 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Canadian retaliation? Trump won't like it if Ottawa removes the 100% tariff on Chinese EVs. www.thewirechina.com/2025/10/26/c...
Take your pick: If the AI bubble bursts we will suffer. If AI is not a bubble and doesn't burst, we will suffer. My latest for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Once the AI bubble pops, we’ll all suffer. Could that be better than letting it grow unabated?
The world will be pushed into a recession, but perhaps we can build something more promising from the pieces
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October 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Take your pick: If the AI bubble bursts we will suffer. If AI is not a bubble and doesn't burst, we will suffer. My latest for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Donald Trump is not Making America Feel Great Again. His base is starting to feel very crummy. My latest for The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Americans’ pessimism about the economy cuts across political lines
Inflation and a worsening job market are top of mind for many Americans, even among the president’s Maga base
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Donald Trump is not Making America Feel Great Again. His base is starting to feel very crummy. My latest for The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Trump's crackdown on immigrants will backfire. History tells us how. My latest for The Guardian www.theguardian.com/business/202...
History shows war against immigrants will backfire on all Americans
Deportations are likely to cause employers to let go of US workers, and reduce the labor force
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Trump's crackdown on immigrants will backfire. History tells us how. My latest for The Guardian www.theguardian.com/business/202...
My first column for The Guardian: On Trump's attempt to take over the Fed. He's taking a page out of Nixon's playbook: www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Trump looks to Nixon’s playbook - good for him, bad for the economy?
History suggests that bullying the Fed for political gain can have serious consequences for the rest of us
www.theguardian.com
October 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM
My first column for The Guardian: On Trump's attempt to take over the Fed. He's taking a page out of Nixon's playbook: www.theguardian.com/business/202...
My first column for the FT: Trump pushes Mexico back to the future: www.ft.com/content/2f9d...
Going back to the 1970s won’t save Mexico
Embracing protectionism to prevent Chinese dumping and appease Trump will fail — just like import substitution did
www.ft.com
October 1, 2025 at 8:31 PM
My first column for the FT: Trump pushes Mexico back to the future: www.ft.com/content/2f9d...
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"China is turning the ‘emerging market energy leapfrog’ from concept to reality."
50% of China's 242 GW of solar exports went to emerging nations in 2024!
~63% of emerging economies had higher solar share than US in 2023.
~25% had higher economy-wide electrification than US in 2023.
#energysky
50% of China's 242 GW of solar exports went to emerging nations in 2024!
~63% of emerging economies had higher solar share than US in 2023.
~25% had higher economy-wide electrification than US in 2023.
#energysky
September 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
"China is turning the ‘emerging market energy leapfrog’ from concept to reality."
50% of China's 242 GW of solar exports went to emerging nations in 2024!
~63% of emerging economies had higher solar share than US in 2023.
~25% had higher economy-wide electrification than US in 2023.
#energysky
50% of China's 242 GW of solar exports went to emerging nations in 2024!
~63% of emerging economies had higher solar share than US in 2023.
~25% had higher economy-wide electrification than US in 2023.
#energysky
Big finding:the claim that moving families to better neighborhoods improves children’s prospects is wrong.
Opinion, James Heckman |
ZIP Code Is Destiny? Turns Out That’s Bunk www.wsj.com/opinion/zip-...
ZIP Code Is Destiny? Turns Out That’s Bunk www.wsj.com/opinion/zip-...
Opinion | ZIP Code Is Destiny? Turns Out That’s Bunk
The neighborhood where a child grows up matters much less to his success than what his parents do.
www.wsj.com
September 5, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Big finding:the claim that moving families to better neighborhoods improves children’s prospects is wrong.
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The Trumpist majority on SCOTUS, like Trump himself, is spending down a trust fund they did not create, apparently believing it refills automatically. But it doesn’t. The whole system depends on other key institutions treating their rulings as legitimate.
It seems like federal district courts are in full revolt against SCOTUS. I've never seen such direct scathing criticism of SCOTUS like this from the bench over their shadow docket rulings quietly overturning precedent without explanation.
From the Harvard decision today.
From the Harvard decision today.
![A screenshot of page 28 of a legal document discussing the difficulty lower courts face when interpreting unclear or rapidly evolving guidance from the Supreme Court.
The following phrases and sentences are highlighted in yellow:
* "That said, the Supreme Court’s recent emergency docket rulings regarding grant terminations have not been models of clarity, and have left many issues unresolved."
* "California was a four-paragraph per curiam decision issued in the context of a stay application."
* "The outcome, which no party had requested, was, thus, inconsistent with the views of eight justices"
* "the issues are complex and evolving."
* "this Court, not the district courts or courts of appeals, will often still be the ultimate decisionmaker as to the interim legal status of major new federal statutes and executive actions."
* "...it is unhelpful and unnecessary to criticize district courts for “defy[ing]” the Supreme Court when they are working to find the right answer in a rapidly evolving doctrinal landscape, where they must grapple with both existing precedent and interim guidance from the Supreme Court that appears to set that precedent aside without much explanation or consensus."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sefgphqp2xqwh2hawaixykwz/bafkreigccsnzzzeeozgxugdllvfylmdjlrmifsf34rgsubkhl5f2viivzu@jpeg)
September 3, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The Trumpist majority on SCOTUS, like Trump himself, is spending down a trust fund they did not create, apparently believing it refills automatically. But it doesn’t. The whole system depends on other key institutions treating their rulings as legitimate.