- December 18, 2017Trump has consistently sold out the blue-collar, socially conservative whites who brought him to power, while pursuing policies to enrich his fellow plutocrats. What might he do to keep the "base" on his side?
- August 23, 2017Small tweaks to NAFTA won’t stop jobs from going abroad; the value of the dollar must decrease if we want to rebalance trade.
- May 11, 2017Trump wants to "renegotiate" trade deals like NAFTA. But there's no evidence he wants to fix their corrosive impact on labor protections or environmental standards.
- February 14, 2017The fact that Trump killed the trade deal doesn't mean progressives should mourn its passing.
- November 22, 2016Here's what President-elect Trump should do to make trade deals better for US workers.
- November 8, 2016Bernie Sanders are fired up for a new issue — preventing the TPP to enter the lame-duck session.
- October 27, 2016The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a protectionist pact for those at the top worried that free trade will undermine them as it did the middle and the bottom.
- October 19, 2016Hint: It doesn’t involve building walls.
- October 4, 2016If Democrats and the media had listened to the people whose lives Springsteen sings about, they might understand where their white working-class voters have gone.
- September 19, 2016These ad hoc courts are a main reason why so many politicians and activists are against trade agreements like the TPP.