Deciphering the Commerce Department’s April 2018 Release of Trade Balance Data  Statement of Lori Wallach, Director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch Note: U.S. trade data for the first four months of 2018 will be released by the U.S. Census Bureau Wednesday morning. Continuing its previous trend, the U.S.-China trade deficit is predicted to increase […]

America has had its share of crooks (Warren G. Harding, Richard Nixon), bigots (Andrew Jackson, James Buchanan), and incompetents (Andrew Johnson, George W. Bush). But never before Donald Trump have we had a president who combined all these nefarious qualities. America’s great good fortune was to begin with the opposite – a superb moral leader. […]