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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.

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.

Dominion Resources won federal approval Wednesday to export liquefied natural gas to countries that don't have free trade agreeemnts with the United States from its terminal at Cove Point in Calvert County.

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.

U.S. is poised to take a leadership role, emphasizing Democratic values in this crucial region

Marlin Steel Wire Products is one of the country's fastest-growing companies. What makes that all the more notable is it's a manufacturer. In Baltimore.

Let business owners in Israel and Gaza point the way to peace

Trade pacts have cost U.S. good-paying manufacturing jobs

The U.S. risks getting pulled into territorial disputes between China and its neighbors.

Unfair trade with Asian competitors is killing the U.S. economy, but neither Barack Obama nor Mitt Romney is proposing a way to address it.

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.

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.

The reality of the global economy is that nations still try to maximize exports and minimize imports

Evidence is clear that free trade creates rather than destroys jobs.

American unemployment is caused by a faulty eduction system that fails to deliver skilled workers.

Free trade has destroyed our industrial base and shifted jobs overseas.

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.