For decades, the liberal belief that open trade fosters peace has shaped US foreign policy. It worked while US security ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover globalization and international economic policy. Blaming “free trade” as the root cause of domestic social ills makes it ...

One area in which economists typically speak with one voice is international trade. They have been staunch advocates of free trade dating back to Adam Smith and David Ricardo. Throughout the post-war ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Democrats and Republicans don’t agree on much, but for a long time, they agreed on this: the more free trade, the better. Now they agree on the opposite: Free ...

The global trading system that promoted free trade and underpinned global prosperity for 80 years now stands at a crossroads. Recent trade policy developments have introduced unprecedented levels of ...