trade agreements

Over the past three years, Wilde Lake High School senior Daniel Ingham says he has learned something each year at the annual Student Learning Conference that has changed his life.

Presidential trade promotion authority expired in 2007 and must be renewed quickly to ensure America continues to lead in leveling the playing field for manufacturers and workers. The stakes are high. Without new market-opening trade agreements, manufacturers will be at a competitive disadvantage.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact could result in more environmental degradation, job loss, and more dangerous fracking affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, from the quality of our water to the quality of our jobs. And yet it has been negotiated with a lack of transparency that is a clear affront to the principles of our democracy.

How policymakers negotiate and interact with their constituents about trade negotiations could be as important as what they negotiate. In a world of instant communications and social media, governments are struggling to find a way to develop public trust while effectively conducting trade policy negotiations.

How Republicans raided the welfare state and left it flat broke

The reality of American politics since the 1960s is that President Barack Obama is unlikely to accomplish much in his second term.

Hundreds of Green Party members arrived Thursday in Baltimore to pick a long-shot candidate for president, even as the party has been forced to scramble for a spot on Maryland's ballot this fall.

Thanks in large part to booming production of natural gas from shale deposits in neighboring states, a Maryland LNG terminal could be bustling again in several years — exporting the heating and industrial fuel to other countries, instead of importing it.

If Congress fails to extend the current payroll tax cut, taxes will go up on millions of people at a time when families are struggling to make ends meet; that's unacceptable

Unfair trade agreements: The source of America's economic woes

Economist Peter Morici says we are already in a trade war with China; the only question is whether we will defend ourselves

Free trade agreements with South Korea, Columbia and Panama would create jobs; we can't let politics get in the way of their passage

The North American Free Trade Agreement has been an utter failure for Maryland and the U.S.

Drew Greenblatt, president of Baltimore-based Marlin Steel Wire, offers ideas for growing jobs in American manufacturing to cope with the growing competition from Asia and elsewhere.

Contrary to the assertions of a congressional fact finding mission, the record of human rights abuses in Colombia remain terrible and will only be worsened by a free trade agreement with the United States.