The Art of the Doll
May 8, 2025
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as posted by the channelRecently, 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 () , 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 () , executive director of the Budget Lab at Yale, discusses the problem with this particular variety of twodoll nostalgia.
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