It's perfectly legitimate to hold out the carrot of trade benefits to encourage good behavior and to use the stick of denying duty-free access to punish bad behavior.

In past nuclear cooperation agreements, the US has required nations to commit to not enriching uranium and opening nuclear sites to inspections. The Obama administration has just done away with the requirement. Congress needs oversight to combat this possibility of nuclear proliferation.

Serious Republican candidates should be able to agree that as president, they will reverse the Obama administration’s headlong rush for the exits in Afghanistan and Iraq.

In 2011, the United States’s sleepy free trade agenda finally got a shot of caffeine, but if the U.S. wants to seriously bolster its economy in 2012, policymakers ought to anchor their boats to the quay of an aggressive free trade agenda.

The president's trip to meet with leaders and revive the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) closely resembles a trip he took two years ago. We've been down this road before. Past experience cautions against reading too much into Obama's embrace of the TPP.

Ignoring Deutsche Telekom’s needs, the DOJ and FCC blocked the proposed merger between AT&T and T-Mobile. As a result, an uncompetitive firm is now trapped in a market it wanted to leave.

As the trade agenda returns to the headlines, it is important to remember that there is both good news and bad news in the world of U.S. trade. And the shorthand for the division between the two is the difference between policy and politics.

A month ago, the George W. Bush administration made a tentative deal with Congressional Democrats on a new template which could allow passage of pending trade accords and potentially clear the way for new ones. According to the proposal, countries seeking free-trade agreements with the United States would have to...