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Global trade is suspect among some in the West because of globalization’s implied dichotomy of winners and losers. Fearing displacement of North American jobs, many US workers have little faith that globalization delivers wide-scale benefits. Citizens rally around globalization efforts more readily when combined with simultaneous investments in improving foreign relations, argues journalist David...

Free trade and free movement of labor has long enriched the US, but analysts increasingly point out that neglect of the nation’s science, education and manufacturing base could limit future prosperity. The US public took little notice when unskilled jobs moved overseas – but some economists predict skilled jobs, any that can be accomplished via the internet, will soon follow. Fast-paced...

Japanese chefs, Norwegian engineers, Canadian fishermen and quirky American consumers combined over the past four decades to develop a new cuisine, one that shows how taste can be as powerful an agent of globalization as trade ministers and CEOs. Sasha Issenberg’s new book, “The Sushi Economy,” explores the history of sushi – the bite-sized combination of sticky rice and raw fish that became a...