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Trade

US Farmers and Food Justice Groups Declare 'Solidarity' With Indian Farmer Protests

Sikh-Americans hold a protest rally to save the farmers against farm laws in India, St. Paul, Minnesota. (Photo by: Michael Siluk/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

'A Profoundly Troubling Pick': Progressives Slam Biden Choice of Gov. Raimondo for Commerce Chief

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

Rhode Island's Democratic Gov. Gina Raimondo speaks at a press conference in Providence, Rhode Island on December 3, 2020.

"Raimondo has a history of supporting cuts to public assistance programs, selling public pensions to Wall Street, undermining labor unions, and grossly mishandling Rhode Island's Covid-19 response."

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"No, Mr. President," Sanders Says Before Election Day, "You're Not Standing Up for Working Families"

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., on September 24, 2020. He warned that the U.S. faces an "unprecedented and dangerous moment," as President Donald Trump questions the legitimacy of mail-in ballots and suggests he might not accepts the election results. (Photo: Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images)

The senator slammed the Trump administration for giving more than $425 billion...

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Investing $2 Trillion in US Clean Energy and Infrastructure Could Create Millions of 'Good Jobs,' Analysis Finds

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

A worker installs solar panels at the Solarpark Eggersdorf solar park on September 4, 2012 near Muencheberg, Germany. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

"We don't have to choose between a strong economy or a healthy environment—we...

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Auto workers rally outside the GM plant in Lordstown, Ohio on March 6, 2019, the day the factory was shuttered. (Photo: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)

'Promises Made, Workers Betrayed': Trump Gave $425 Billion in Federal Contracts to Corporations That Offshored 200,000 Jobs

United Auto Worker Joe Nero pickets outside the shuttered General Motors plant in Lordstown, OH, on Sep. 23, 2019. (Photo: Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Trump's Corporate-Friendly Trade, Tax, and Labor Policies Betrayed Manufacturing Workers in Midwest: Study

U.S. President Donald Trump and Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador sign a joint declaration on the new USMCA agreement in the Rose Garden at the White House on Wednesday, July 8, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

'Trump Is a Fraud, Exhibit One Billion': Trade Deficit Soars to 12-Year High Despite President's Promises to Wipe It Out

Volunteers remove plastic bottles and other trash polluting Ruaka River on August 25, 2020. Increasing production of single-use plastics for beverage and other uses has become a nightmare in solid waste management in Kenya. (Photo: James Wakibia/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

"Is There No End to Big Oil's Evil?" Campaigners Condemn Industry Plan to Pour US Plastics Into Africa

President Donald Trump stands after signing the United States-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement (USMCA) during a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House on January 29, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Trump Trade Policies and Mishandling of Coronavirus Pandemic Have 'Wiped Out' US Manufacturing Jobs: Economist

Decrying 'Unacceptable' Brutality, UK Lawmakers Join Half a Million Britons in Calling to Halt Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets Exports to US

Biden Rally

Biden Says 'The Bernie Bros Are Here' as Protesters Disrupt Detroit Rally to Denounce NAFTA, Champion Green New Deal

Democratic presidential hopefuls Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and former Vice President Joe Biden speak during the third Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season at Texas Southern University in Houston on September 12, 2019.

Will Biden's Trade Policy Record Come Back to Haunt Him in Midwest?

US President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson at UN Headquarters in New York, September 24, 2019, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.

Boris Johnson Trade Talks With US Raising Fears in UK of 'Shock Doctrine Brexit'

'Giveaway to Fossil Fuel Industry': Sanders Vows to Immediately Renegotiate Trump Trade Deal If Elected

Sanders and Schumer

Schumer Praised for Joining Sanders in Voting Against Trump Trade Deal That Ignores Climate Crisis

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)

Standing With Labor, Farmers, and Climate Groups on Trump Trade Deal, Sanders Vows to Vote Against NAFTA 2.0

Newswire

Public Citizen

Biden's Executive Order Mandating Review of U.S. Supply Chains for Access to Critical Goods Is an Important First Step

Public Citizen

Buy American Order A Good First Step: Enacting EO’s Goals Requires President Biden to End 60 Nations’ Trade-Pact Buy American Waivers

AFL-CIO

AFL-CIO Outraged By Harassment of Mexican Trade Unionist

Public Citizen

Despite Promises, Trump Trade Deficit Is 22% Higher Than Same Period in Obama’s Final Year

The Groundwork Collaborative

Trump’s Trade, Tax, Industrial Policies Have Let Down Midwest Manufacturing Workers, Communities

Center for International Environmental Law

Investigation Details Industry’s Attempts to Flood Africa with Plastic Pollution

Views

Zena Wolf

Why Progressives Should Care About Biden's Pick for Commerce Secretary

Manuel Pérez Rocha

Biden's Top Trade Official Should Work to Protect Governments From the Rising Number of Corporate Lawsuits

Robert Freeman

The Economy Isn’t Working. That’s Exactly the Plan.

Michael Galant

5 Foreign Policy Issues to Look Out For in Tonight’s Town Halls

Sarah Anderson

For Laid-off Workers, Trump’s Lies About Trade and Jobs Are Hard to Swallow

Anne Schechinger

New USDA Records Show Trade Bailout and Coronavirus Payments Went to the Largest Farms

Michael T. Klare

Get Ready to Pay the Costs of a New Cold War With China

Manuel Pérez Rocha

Corporate Lawsuits Could Devastate Poor Countries Grappling With COVID-19

Dilip Hiro

The Coronavirus Chronology From Hell

Scott Casleton

Bernie Beats Trump (and Biden) on Trade