The Globalist

The Donald Trump administration aims at redefining US trade relationships with the rest of the world to make trade “free and fair” again.

Just what is the new U.S. President so afraid about with regard to his country’s middling trade partners in Asia?

While the rest of Europe ducked, one region stood up for important principles of responsible globalization.

The 1888 Great Debate over US trade policy inspired literary luminaries like Walt Whitman and Mark Twain to take sides.

How the 1888 elections decided the protectionist course of U.S. economic expansion for decades to come.

How the nineteenth-century battle between free trade and protectionism shaped the global economic order.

U.S. elites claiming moral superiority by demanding that other people do the sacrificing on trade issues is unprincipled hypocrisy.

Will trade deals such as TTIP and TPP change the world economic order for the better?

How trade and investment can overcome a treacherous historical legacy.

Premiums for health risks could move Asia toward a better habitat, but a tenser trade environment.