Globalization

Barack Obama faced tough questions Saturday about Donald Trump’s victory on the last foreign visit of his presidency, to a summit of Pacific leaders that has been upended by the US election and concerns about China’s rise.

Here’s why backing out of major US trade agreements like NAFTA might not be such a good idea for US workers.

The holy trinity of Icelandic identity is, according to a popular poem, land, nation and tongue. Remove one, and the others will collapse. So, will the Icelandic nation survive if, as some predict, the Icelandic language dies out?

A new study gives us a new date for the start of the human, or Anthropocene age: 1610. That’s when the movement of crops, animals and diseases around the world shows up clearly in the geological record — but it still has some competition.

Beth Macy’s new book “Factory Man” tells the story of a furniture maker in Virginia who took on the Asian factories that produced inexpensive knock-offs of American furniture. In the story,we meet the people who have been hurt, and helped, by globalization.