The general economic "health" of the U.S. manufacturing sector has re-emerged in a Presidential election year. In his 2012 State of the Union address, President Obama announced to Americans "that we have a huge opportunity, at this moment to bring manufacturing back," promising manufacturers special tax reductions and other federal...

Mr. Prestowitz's litany of alleged "unfair" trade practices by China is irrelevant.

In the wake of this week's progress on advancing the U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement, most of the U.S. criticism, naturally, argues that the agreement is not in the U.S. interest.

A top Republican and Democratic economist explain why Obama's economic policies are failing, and offer a commonsense blueprint for reigniting long-term growth and prosperity for all Americans.

Has the United States become the very 'empire' that the republic's founders heartily rejected?

In short, for all the differences that exist between the United States and the states of Europe, and for all the personal clashes between heads of state and government on both sides of the Atlantic, Europe matters to America, and America to Europe, because converging concerns, compatible values, and overlapping interests make of each the other"s partner of choice.