Of the many criticisms hurled at President Trump, one of the most frequently heard is the complaint that he is leading a dismantling of something called the international "order."

"Liberal World Order, R.I.P.," was the headline over a post by the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, Richard Haass, on the CFR website. Haass writes that, "The weakening of the liberal world order is due, more than anything else, to the changed attitude of the US. Under President Donald Trump..."

A New York Times "news analysis" ran under the headline, "Postwar Global Order Is Attacked From Within."

A Washington Post headline reports, "In Trump, some fear the end of the world order."

Schumer, Sanders, and Schwarzenegger discover states' rights, at least when it comes to California, President Trump's "Make Cars Great Again auto emissions standards, and the Clean Air Act, the topic of my column this week. Please check out the full column at Reason (here), the New York Sun (here), and Newsmax (here).

"When a Local Paper Gets New Owners, Partisan Strife Hits Its Doorstep," is the online headline over a New York Times article covering the inevitable grumbling that ensues whenever someone who is not a lock-step liberal purchases a newspaper. The Adelson family got similar treatment from the Times when they bought the Las Vegas Review-Journal. As did Rupert Murdoch when his company bought the Wall Street.

The California paper that is the subject of the article on the front of the Times business section has a circulation of 8,000.

The New York Times has an interview with a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan, John James, a 37 year old, black, West Point graduate who is president of his family-run business:

There's a massive disconnect. People here in Michigan feel disenfranchised and disillusioned with the situations that are going on the coasts.

I actually heard on the trail somebody say Donald Trump is Rust Belt Robin Hood. And I took that to mean that we finally have a president that's listening to the people in the Midwest...

The reason why he won in Michigan, despite what everybody said, is because people went to the polls in a secret ballot and voted for someone who they believed would take care of their personal economy, would help their economy grow, would help their job.

Reading the left-wing press can sometimes make it sound as if the Trump administration and the Republican Congress have already succeeded in rolling back all the burdensome regulations that afflict small businesses. Alas, just this week I spent hours on behalf of FutureOfCapitalism, LLC responding to the Department of Commerce's "2017 Economic Census" and the "2017 Annual Business Survey."

You sometimes see reporters on Twitter making comments like "I don't get why Republicans hate the census." The reporters work for companies that are large enough that the reporters don't have to fill out those census forms by themselves. But for a small business, it is a hassle.

How economic growth is shrinking the federal budget deficit as a percentage of GDP is the topic of my column this week,. It suggests that some of the press "fact-checkers" could use a fact-check of their own. Please check out the full column at the New York Sun (here) and Newsmax (here).

Enrollment in Catholic schools has plummeted, Alia Wong reports in the Atlantic:

The NPR and WBUR program "Here and Now" has an interview with the publisher of the Daily Sentinel in Grand Junction, Colo., Jay Seaton, explaining why his newspaper is retreating to publishing in print five days a week instead of seven.

Part of the issue, Mr. Seaton said, was increased paper prices related to President Trump's tariffs on imported newsprint.

Another problem, he said, was statewide minimum wage legislation that imposed the same uniform minimum wage in Grand Junction as in more urban, high-cost Denver. The minimum wage in Colorado is now $10.20 an hour, and it will increase to $12 an hour in 2020.

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh — a somewhat rare example these days of a Democrat who can connect well with Trump voters, or at least with blue collar, non-college-educated white guys — suggests that Democrats seeking a presidential candidate in 2020 maybe look in a different direction than Elizabeth Warren. Politico reports:

Looking ahead to 2020, he talks up fellow mayors Eric Garcetti of Los Angeles and Mitch Landrieu, the former mayor of New Orleans, though he said the first name that comes to mind as a candidate who can take on Trump is the man Walsh invited to swear him in for his second term as mayor: "Joe Biden gets it."

Further: "he won't take a swing at [Republican] Gov. Charlie Baker, whose popularity and election chances remain extremely high."

At Deadspin, a sports website that is a subsidiary of a subsidiary of Univision Communications, a writer named Albert Burneko blames capitalism for the layoffs of half of the editorial staff at the New York Daily News:

The Walmart in Ware, Mass. has a sign telling employees — Walmart calls them "associates" — what the Walmart stock price is.

"Today's stock quote...tomorrow depends on you," the sign says.

Walmart's stock performance over the past 20 years has been nothing spectacular, which may tell something about the limits of both motivational signs and in-store associate performance in the face of broader economic trends and competition. Or it may just say that after a period of spectacular growth, some leveling off was inevitable.

Senator Elizabeth Warren's message and her presidential prospects are the topic of my column this week. Please check out the full column at the New York Sun (here), Reason (here), and Newsmax (here).

Elsewhere, Senator Warren insists to CNBC's John Harwood, " I am a capitalist. Come on. I believe in markets."

The Democratic Party, hoping to retake control of the House of Representatives from Republicans, is fielding a number of candidates who openly question capitalism.

The Henry Shattuck professor of law at Harvard, Jack Goldsmith, has a non-conventional and in my view pretty interesting take on the Russia-election-meddling situation. If you have any interest in that situation, it may be worth your time to have a look.

The searches for new leaders at the Manhattan Institute and the American Enterprise Institute are the topic of my column this week. Please check out the full column at Newsmax (here).