The MIT economist David Autor helped fracture the old free-trade consensus. But he thinks that what’s replacing it is even worse.

Good morning. Americans face a supply shock that may last all the way to Christmas. Canadians go to the polls today. And there’s been an arrest in connection with the theft of the Homeland Security Secretary’s handbag.

China’s President Xi Jinping has not called President Donald Trump, Beijing said Monday, despite Trump’s claims to the contrary. Trump said in an interview with Time magazine that Xi had already contacted him after Trump triggered a trade war between their countries—the two largest economies in the world—with punishing tariffs.

Ahead of his second go-around in the White House, President Donald Trump spoke with certainty about ending Russia’s war in Ukraine in the first 24 hours of his new administration and finding lasting p

In the first 100 days of his second term, he's been able to deliver on some of the promises he repeated most during his campaign, while others remain out of reach. But much like the first 100 days of his first term,

A new survey of consumers on Tuesday is expected to show attitudes worsened in April, casting further gloom over the economy as President Donald Trumps tariffs set off warnings of price increases and a possible recession.

President Donald Trump is on track to ease the impact of his auto tariffs, with changes sought by the industry that would lift some levies on foreign parts for cars and trucks made inside the US.