The verdict became a landmark case for litigating the illegal slave trade, which continued to expand over the next two ...

While genetic tests can reveal the ancestry of enslaved individuals, strontium analysis can now home in on where they actually grew up.

Her expertise is in personal finance and investing, and real estate. Tariffs are a type of trade barrier that makes imported products more expensive than domestic ones. Tariffs typically come in ...

Which NBA teams are most likely to make moves at the trade deadline? The league has seen a flurry of smaller deals, most notably the Los Angeles Lakers adding Dorian Finney-Smith and the Phoenix ...

Investopedia / Ryan Oakley The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an international institution that oversees the rules for global trade among nations. It was created in 1995, superseding the 1947 ...

But how did the slave trade shape the art market in the Netherlands? And how is it reflected in the paintings of the time? This is the subject of a new book called Slavery and the Invention of ...

President Trump wants to use tariffs to solve a raft of policy problems. By Ana Swanson I cover trade. For most of U.S. history, tariffs were a solution to specific economic problems. Washington ...

They then conducted up to 200 interviews with workers and farm owners. The results go beyond the horrific: almost half of the farms are exploited with forced labor (i.e. slaves), and many of them are ...

America’s new top diplomat has rarely focused on Africa during his 14 years in the Senate, making his repeated criticism of Algeria particularly noteworthy.

So the fear lingers that the US President’s aggressive trade posture will sow global disorder, depressing growth and roiling markets, particularly if targeted nations retaliate. But retaliation ...

Bob Davis is a former Wall Street Journal reporter where he covered U.S.-China relations and is the co-author of Superpower Showdown, a history of the two nations’ economic battles. Donald Trump ...

The map below compiles trade data from 178 countries as reported to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). It displays values for each country’s trade in tangible goods and, for countries ...