Nine Line's Tyler Merritt cries foul over Chinese Communist slave labor fabric in the apparel business.

Blast Furnace 6 at the U.S. Steel Carrie Works in Pennsylvania is a haunting reminder of an industry in which America is no longer supreme.

The Chinese Communist Party is adept at peeling off allies. It exploits the weaknesses of its targets to enlist them in its cause.

While we recover from the coronavirus shutdowns, the last thing we need is to shift more American jobs to China by repealing the Jones Act.

The only way for America to be truly prepared for the unknown is for it to be economically independent—to produce enough of everything to survive a global shortage of anything.

If economists continue to substitute extraordinary equations for extraordinary evidence, we have a duty to state the obvious: that science disproves scientific determinism.

America’s trade policy must be tempered with a political and policy realism that acknowledges that the virtue of a national government is to protect and provide for its citizens in a crisis.

For the sake of our souls, as well as for our bodies, we must deregulate to the extent necessary to bring our medical supply chain back to the United States. We must bring chip manufacturing back in a big way. And we must invest in artificial intelligence and quantum computing.

China simply orders companies to hand over their intellectual property. A South Korean conglomerate is abusing the Korean court system to achieve the same end. Why hasn’t the U.S. government intervened?

A strong domestic healthcare manufacturing base is as much a matter of national security and defense as it is of public health and augurs the very survival of America.

China may be a trading partner. But it is not a friend.

Protectionism is not the right word for preventing authoritarian nations from using ill-gotten wealth to gain influence. The right word is patriotism.

Shortages aren’t the only problem with our overreliance on China for prescription drugs and drug ingredients.

Coronavirus may or may not prove as deadly as the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. But the disease has clearly shown the need to end China’s dominant position in the global supply chain. 

Like the Lenape Indians who traded Manhattan island for glass beads, Americans got cheaper stuff here today, gone tomorrow; China got industrial and technological capabilities good for the long term.

The coronavirus pandemic underscores the fundamental fact that America can’t be great again until it restores its economic independence.

When you hear Joe Biden or any other candidate, Wall Street analyst, or talking head say President Trump “should work with our allies” to take on China, you can be sure that person doesn't know what he is talking about. Or he is being paid not to know.

The owners of capital and their McKinsey consultants would do well to follow the teachings of David Ricardo—all of them.

As it turned out, the time was ripe for change, and it was everyday, normal people in places like Cleveland and Winchester, Tennessee—not the Ivy League professors who dismissed them—who had the right idea all along.