Free trade is in trouble. That’s hardly startling news when the U.S. has an avowed protectionist in the White House, but the problem runs deeper than it may at first appear. Start with the distinction ...

On Feb. 19, 1904, a young English politician delivered a speech at Free Trade Hall in Manchester, England. For more than 90 minutes, he spoke with precision, wit, and humor, drawing guffaws as he ...

In a world increasingly interconnected by trade and economic globalization, the proposal made on Monday by a French government agency to impose a 30 percent across-the-board tariff on Chinese goods or ...

Many analysts have interpreted Trump’s protectionist stance, and the United States’ imposition of tariffs, as economically irrational. If the liberal motto was once that “under free trade everybody ...

Thomas Piketty believes that restricting trade to protect domestic industries usually makes a country poorer overall.

US Delegation, including US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer (2nd R) and Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross (R) talks with the Chinese Delegation including Vice Premier Liu He (2nd L) during ...

There are more books with “Napoleon” in their titles than there have been days since the death of the French emperor and general in 1821. So reports Andrew Roberts in his magisterial biography of the ...

“The greatest fever of all was aspiration, a belief in the sheer possibility to remake a life.” That’s what Evan Osnos wrote in Age of Ambition, his remarkable 2014 book about life in emerging China.

The No. 1 issue on voter's minds in this election year is immigration. That may come as a surprise to some, but it makes a lot of sense if one believes that we have entered a period of populism. Sixty ...

SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Yonhap) -- Hyundai Steel Co., South Korea's second-largest steelmaker, said Friday its net profit plunged 84 percent in 2025 from a year earlier due to a downturn in the construction ...