TOKYO (AP) — Leaders of the European Union and Japan launched an alliance Wednesday aimed at boosting economic cooperation, defending free trade and countering unfair trade practices as the two sides ...

Contrary to Trump, the U.S. manufacturing center has not collapsed. THE TRUTH: Manufacturing employment has decreased as production per worker has increased due to advances in technology and ...

Globalization’s first age some 200 years ago sheds light on today’s turn toward economic nationalism The “first age” of globalization was beset by contradictions. In the 60 years or so before World ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. In his 1948 memoirs, Cordell Hull wrote that during his 12 years as US President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s secretary of state he was guided by ...