Politics
The Making of a Trade Warrior
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer wants to limit China’s influence, even if he has to break the American-made economic order to do it.
Matt Peterson
Matt Peterson is the editor of The Masthead, the membership program at The Atlantic.
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