The United States cannot divorce itself from the “disruptive forces” of the global world, Sen. Jack Reed, D-RI, told an audience of Brown and Providence community members Sunday during a lecture that ...

Trump brands himself anti-globalist, yet his tariffs, combative rhetoric, and forward-leaning deployments bind America more tightly to great-power competition, raising risks to our security and ...

The U.S. has turned sharply against free trade over the past two decades, shifting from an era in which members and presidents of both parties generally embraced one free-trade pact after another to ...

President Donald Trump’s protectionist stance is undoing decades of free trade policies. Since taking office for his second term, Trump has imposed a series of tariffs on goods and countries, which ...

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Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America’s Food Industry, by Austin Frerick, Island Press, 248 pages Austin Frerick declares himself surprised to find conservatives among his allies in his ...

Globalization promised connection and progress, but it was also driven by forces seeking power and dominance. Its roots reveal a story far more complex than trade alone.

The traditional boundaries of work that have confined many of us — cubicles, set schedules, and geographic limitations, to name a few — have essentially been shattered by the pandemic, by forces of ...

In this ambitious and sweeping study, Thomas tells the grand story of the end of European empires and the struggle for decolonization. This drama played out in different times and places across Africa ...