The Economist

Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist.

I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Something funny is going on in America's job statistics. After decades of women catching up with men in terms of labor force participation, the gap is spreading again. We crunch the

numbers on why women are pouring out of the job market.

And if you've ever hunted for the button that you wanted to click on a retailer's website,

but all you could see was the button the retailer wanted you to click,

you've experienced what are called dark patterns, and regulators have begun to take notice.

Thank you. dark patterns, and regulators have begun to take notice. But first...

Hours after he was inaugurated for his second term, Donald Trump said that the word

tariffs was the most beautiful in the dictionary. Going to make us rich as hell, he said,

bring our country's businesses back. If there's a grand economic plan of the administration,

the central feature of it has been threatening

or applying or repealing or increasing tariffs at Mr. Trump's whim.

The question from the start has been whether he's actually in doubt with that power.

We will hear argument this morning in case 241287, Learning Resources versus Trump and the

consolidated case.

And that question has reached the highest court in the land.

Soon after Trump issued his tariffs in the spring, culminating in the Liberation Day tariffs

in April on nearly every country in the world, a sheaf of lawsuits were filed against them,

and three courts ruled against Trump saying that he did not have the authority to issue them.

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