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Few Americans realize how our system of organized labor is an outlier among Western nations. In some European countries, unions attract a greater share of workers and maintain less adversarial relationships with business. A better understanding of these alternative models can guide American policymakers as they address our labor policy challenges.

American labor law has become worse than useless: a lower share of the private-sector labor force is organized today than before the National Labor Relations Act was passed in 1935. The time has come for an entirely new model.

Meet Alex and Lance, two blue-collar workers in southwestern Ohio. One had union representation as he sought a foothold in the labor market; the other did not. Their lives remind us that there is still power in a union.

The trade union is a quintessentially Tocquevillian institution and the one that brought down Soviet communism. Conservatives must rescue the American labor movement from Big Labor’s partisanship and restore its community-building purpose.

Statement on a conservative future for the American labor movement.

After a year of empty promises from CEOs, a Left-Right coalition propose a framework for substantive action

Business leaders have lost contact with the communities and institutions that might hold them accountable, escaped from the oversight and regulation that would channel their activities, and proven themselves shameless in the face of whatever weak standards of decency the culture still attempts to muster.

The international trading system must recover the core principles of reciprocity, security, and democracy.

A national development bank could attract the private capital that America’s infrastructure needs.

The American medical industry offers a case study of how market concentration undermines economic resilience.

A new task for government demands a new structure for its agencies.

Outdated environmental regulation poses an irrational barrier to reshoring efforts.

Reshoring strategies can only go so far without investment in America’s skilled workforce.

Local content requirements offer a simple intervention with benefits that its prohibitionist detractors ignore.

A tax credit for domestic investment is the best way to reduce production costs.

Pre-competitive research consortia are vital to sparking innovation.

You may not be interested in supply chains, but supply chains are interested in you.

Nine strategies for retaking global leadership in industry and innovation

The fact that government planners are not omniscient is obvious, but it does not automatically follow that planning is always ineffective. Perfect information is simply not a precondition of successful planning in either the private or the public sectors.