From the looms of 18th century Bengal to clothing factories in Cape Town, tariffs have shaped the global economy not through ...

Capitalism did not invent sexism, and it did not invent the family. But it was able to codify and use older familial structures and ideas about a ­woman’s place in society to support its new system.

The Luddites lost the fight to save their livelihoods. As the threat of artificial intelligence looms, can we do any better?

Both models of state-directed capitalism misallocate resources and make the nation poorer.

Voters in Surrey Centre will have a choice of Liberal incumbent Randeep Sarai, New Democratic Party candidate Dominic ...

Why did Britain (or England) prosper in the late 1700’s and lead the way in the Industrial Revolution? Was this in part due to the earlier Glorious Revolution when our own ‘King Billy’ defeated the ...

After three years of war, the Putin regime is increasingly unable to control its explosive social consequences, which have ...

Growing up in Marianao, a city next to Havana, Cuba, in the early 1950s, I remember the excitement of people in the ...

Historically, empires have gone to great lengths to secure potash, a mineral critical to agricultural production.

The Times Opinion columnist discusses what he thinks Trump — and American policymakers — misunderstand about China in the escalating trade war.

A 2018 Fraser Institute report attributed this success to “community capitalism.” Get a dash of perspective along with the trending news of the day in a very readable format. FMFN’s ...

American companies that make everything from keychains to mattresses say Chinese manufacturing is superior, and tariffs won’t ...