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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In an exclusive article for Nhan Dan, the official newspaper of Vietnam's Communist Party, Chinese President Xi Jinping wrote that "trade war and tariff war will produce no winner, and protectionism ...

“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.

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 ...

Globalism — the free flow of money, people and goods — has made the world a heck of a lot richer over the past several decades. But it’s always been subject to some threat or other. In recent years, ...

The Better Outfitting Our Troops or BOOTS Act has a noble-sounding name, but it is the exact opposite in practice. Introduced earlier this year, the proposed legislation would prohibit U.S.

Nippon Steel and US Steel reached a deal in December for the Japanese steelmaker to acquire its iconic US competitor. The acquisition is a non-hostile, $14.1bn deal in which Nippon would pay $55 per ...

President Trump prides himself on being a destroyer of “woke nonsense” like affirmative action. “Our country will be Woke no longer!” he proclaimed to a joint session of Congress in March. “Whether ...

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 ...

Reprinted with Permission from The Next American Economy: Nation, State, and Markets in an Uncertain World, by Samuel Gregg, published by Encounter Books. @ 2022 by ...