Tariffs were sold as a factory revival President Donald Trump rolled out his April 2025 tariffs as a kind of industrial reset button. The pitch was simple enough, if not especially subtle: charge more at the border, and America would get more factory jobs at home. A new analysis from the Advancing American Freedom Foundation says that promise did not hold up. The group says the tariff surge did not produce a manufacturing comeback and instead slowed job growth across the economy. That is awkward for any policy sold as a jobs machine. It is even more awkward when the machine keeps sputtering and the bill still gets mailed. The report says manufacturing lost jobs Researchers estimate the tariffs left the country with up to 1 million fewer jobs than would have been expected under pre-tariff trends. Manufacturing, the very sector the policy was meant to help, allegedly lost about 75,000 jobs in the first year, or about 6,250 a month. Richard Stern, vice president of the Plymouth Institute for Free Enterprise at AAFF, said the team had more than 90% confidence that manufacturing lost jobs because of the tariffs. His explanation was blunt: many American producers buy imported parts…

The new count Campus Reform, citing research from Speech First, reviewed general education rules at 248 colleges and universities and found that 165 of them require students to take a DEI course to graduate. That works out to 67 percent, which is a tidy number for people who like slogans and a messy one for anyone who thought the DEI fad had quietly packed its bags. The same survey said 33 percent of schools did not require a DEI course. It also found that 59 percent of the schools with DEI requirements were public and 41 percent were private. So much for the idea that the bureaucracy ever truly sleeps. What the courses are doing The report says some of these required classes push far-left ideological ideas and political advocacy, not just basic classroom discussion. Schools often answer criticism with polished language about inclusion, belonging, and preparing students for a diverse world, which is the sort of PR that can make almost any syllabus sound harmless. But when a course becomes a graduation requirement, it stops being an option and starts acting like a filter. Speech First Executive Director Cherise Trump told Fox Business the group began looking after hearing…