From The Atlantic.

Recently, Donald Trump mused that “maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls, you know?” We talk with a doll manufacturer and a policy analyst about tariffs and Americans’ relationship with choice.

Elenor Mak, founder of Jilly Bing (https://jillybing.com/) , talks about her dream of giving Asian American kids the choice of having a doll that looks like them, and how the new tariffs might kill it. And Martha Gimbel (https://budgetlab.yale.edu/person/martha-gimbel) , executive director of the Budget Lab at Yale, discusses the problem with this particular variety of two-doll nostalgia.

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