Democrats backed Trump's trade pact on the same day they introduced articles of impeachment. The optics don't matter.

Tariffs for China, tax cuts for the wealthy, and rage-tweets for practically everyone else.

One year into the administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the president's militarized response to crime and immigration dims hopes for reform.

Though they threaten defections over personnel and policy, members of the president's party are truer than ever to the man.

The migrants that do arrive in the U.S. are fleeing situations exacerbated by decades of bad American foreign policy. Tariffs on Mexico would continue that pattern.

While Trump loudly escalates his trade war with China, most 2020 contenders are muted—and that's a mistake.

Forcing Beijing into economic reform could help it overtake the U.S. in the long run.

I helped spread this journalism meme, and I regret it more every day.

Trump touts agreements with foreign leaders as historic accomplishments, but they're just rebranded versions of the status quo.

The single most important vote of the 116th Congress will be on trade: specifically, the NAFTA replacement. We have absolutely no idea where the new legislators stand on it.

Do any of us really control our purchasing choices and their implications these days?

People don't change their minds based on facts. They need an alternate theory.

There’s an important truth behind his attack on globalization.

The fine the EU slapped on the company earlier this week may have set a record, but it will have to do more to get Silicon Valley's attention.

Free-trade proponents accuse Trump of imperiling a decades-old system, but a reckoning was due no matter what.

When the president threatens to blow up the global economy, he is really playing to a domestic audience.

China's farmers see the trade war as an act of American aggression.

The economic impact will probably be minimal, says Peter Chase. But boy do they throw a wrench into existing trade treaties.