In an exclusive sit-down with Reason, Hannan debunks some of the most common arguments for tariffs and explains why free trade remains underappreciated ... especially the people it was most designed ...

The right’s argument is that the pursuit of free trade — while enriching the most educated Americans — has hollowed out American industry, destroyed family stability for the working class ...

Photo: Mandel Nganpedro Pardo/AFP/Getty Images Populists such as Vice President JD Vance argue that free-trade agreements cause ... Yet the only way to make this argument is to cherry-pick the ...

Japan and ASEAN have an obligation to protect the free trade system.

Whenever the subject of trade ... that free trade is often an illusion: “If the system of perfect liberty to industry and commerce were the prevailing system of nations, the arguments which ...

Since returning to office in January, US President Donald Trump has doubled down on using trade measures ... tool to protect our jobs and our industries”. This line of argument overlooks ...

On Monday morning, Musk posted a video on X of economist Milton Friedman defending free trade by using a pencil as an analogy for how it would only be possible with such policies in place.