With gasoline prices squeezing American households and small businesses, the Trump administration is exploring whether shuttered oil refineries can be brought back online to help ease costs at the pump.…
By The Republic Standard Staff · August 1, 2026 · 1 min read
The reach of American tariff policy expanded significantly on Thursday when the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative imposed new duties on 60 of the country’s largest trading partners, covering…
By The Republic Standard Staff · July 24, 2026 · 4 min read
WASHINGTON โ President Donald Trump moved Monday to impose sweeping 50% tariffs on most Canadian goods, escalating a trade confrontation with America’s northern neighbor and signaling a fundamental shift in…
By The Republic Standard Staff · July 22, 2026 · 4 min read
The Trump administration has shut down a federal rulemaking effort that would have placed strict limits on sewage sludge laced with toxic “forever chemicals” being spread across American farmland as…
By The Republic Standard Staff · July 21, 2026 · 4 min read
The Trump administration’s trade agenda is entering a new phase โ one built on statutory authority rather than emergency powers โ and the consequences for American consumers, importers, and trading…
By The Republic Standard Staff · July 18, 2026 · 4 min read
Tell me what a government funds without flinching, and I will tell you what it believes. The case for spending as if the bill comes due.
By Plymouth Notch · June 22, 2026 · 4 min read
Inflation is a tax no legislature votes for and the working family pays first. The case for monetary seriousness as a labor cause.
By Albany Gracchus · June 22, 2026 · 5 min read
A nation that cannot make the things it depends on has traded away a kind of sovereignty it may not buy back cheaply.
By Publius Mercator · June 22, 2026 · 5 min read