The results of the U.S. election this month have got me thinking about protectionism. Webster’s Dictionary defines protectionism as: “the theory or practice of shielding a country’s domestic ...

President Trump is reimaging U.S. foreign and international economic policies, and Americans won’t be richer. After World War II, the United States fostered security alliances — NATO and regional ...

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 ...

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 ...

Our nation faces rising unemployment, staggering debts, shrinking trade, and no sense of when (and if) a real recovery — one that reaches Main Street and working families — will take hold. As the ...

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 ...

What some decry as protectionism and mercantilism is really a rebalancing toward addressing important national issues. The biggest risk to the global economy stems not from this broader reorientation ...

Free trade agreements have become the talk of the town, thanks to India announcing two of the biggest such deals with the European Union and the United States. While the finer details of these ...

It has always struck me as odd that the most thoughtful advocates of protectionism within the conservative movement also tend to be the fiercest advocates of non-interventionism. Patrick Buchanan ...