SACRAMENTO, Calif — In a 1988 radio address praising Canadian voters for rejecting a political ticket that described a free-trade deal as “selling out Canada,” President Ronald Reagan noted that “the argument against tariffs” has not only “won nearly universal agreement among…
With President-elect Donald Trump due back in the White House come January 20 — and with Republicans clinching majorities in both the Senate and the House of Representatives — the New Right is ascendant. This election proves that 2016 wasn’t…
When Pres. Donald Trump took office in 2017, he promised free, fair, and reciprocal trade, including deals to open markets to U.S. exports and bring more investment to the United States. Unfortunately, his chief trade advisors, Director of Trade and…
Donald Trump wants to bring manufacturing jobs back to America, which he has said he’ll do if elected by imposing tariffs on goods such as vehicles made outside the United States. This, Trump believes, will negate the cost-of-labor savings of…
Volkswagen made headlines recently as its leaders expressed concern about the company’s prospects, suggesting that they may have to close their operations in Germany, the birthplace of the company and its home for almost 90 years. And they should be…
In 1974, during a crucial period of shuttle diplomacy, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger orchestrated an agreement of cooperation with Saudi Arabia. This landmark accord, negotiated in the aftermath of the Yom Kippur War, where the U.S. backed Israel and…
Yale history professor and author of The Global Cold War Odd Arne Westad, writing in Foreign Affairs, sees dangerous similarities between the British-German geopolitical rivalry before the First World War and today’s geopolitical rivalry between the United States and China….
Joseph Nye, the intellectual champion of “soft power” and adviser to Democrat presidents reaching back to Jimmy Carter, is one of those liberals whom Lenin purportedly called “useful idiots”: intelligent, well-meaning intellectuals who always seem to give the benefit of…
Mercantilism 2.0, the economic manifestation of multipolarity, is streaking across the geostrategic firmament. The sun has set on globalization, the economic manifestation of a unipolar world order reflecting American primacy. The transition to a new economic order of the emerging…
