The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down protectionist state wine and liquor laws on the grounds that they illegally discriminated against out-of-state wineries and out-of-state alcohol retailers. Yet ...

THE NEED to fight protectionism may well stand as one of America’s clearest and most vital national interests. From the voting booth to the country’s foreign-policy establishment, action is needed to ...

With the presidential election weeks away and still looking like a true toss-up, we face the very real prospect of a second Trump administration. With that in mind, it makes sense to ask how Trump's ...

In the wake of the deadliest U.S. fire in more than a century that has left hundreds of structures destroyed and at least $1 billion in damages, Maui faces a difficult recovery. In the weeks and ...

We live in a second-best world. As the U.S. imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, economists united in condemning the measures—a rare display of unity in the profession. I think as economists ...

In today’s Washington Post, I write on the blowback Democrats could face thanks to their unfounded accusations that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has been using foreign money to finance Republican ...

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch has generally received high marks from libertarian legal observers since joining the Supreme Court in 2017. That is due in part to Gorsuch's hawkish stance in Fourth ...

As Puerto Rico faces the ordeal of recovering from the devastation of Hurricane Maria, its ability to import supplies is being curtailed by an arcane law that has long bedeviled the American island: ...

The Chinese Ministry of Commerce blasted the European Union’s decision to open an investigation into the state subsidies that allow Chinese-made EVs to be sold at “artificially low” prices on the Old ...