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.

The White House said Tuesday that it was “setting the stage for a deal with China” on trade as administration officials seek to reassure nervous financial markets and investors that progress with

U.S. President Donald Trump wants to see a permanent ceasefire to ending Russia's war in Ukraine, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Monday. Leavitt told reporters that Trump was increasingly frustrated with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy,

President Donald Trump told reporters on Sunday he wants to see a deal between Russia and Ukraine "in two weeks or less."