©2016 Bloomberg View O3P2926S972K (Bloomberg View) — It’s been a huge week in the presidential campaign. We’ve gone from Donald Trump having an unstoppable path to the Republican nomination to the possibility that he could be beaten. That’s the good news for the majority of Americans who believe that an authoritarian,

published Oct 5, 2017, 5:00:08 PM, by Noah Smith (Bloomberg View) — Back in the 1980s or 1990s, few would have predicted that Japan would become the standard-bearer of free trade. This is, after all, the country that once tried to ban foreign-made skis by claiming that Japanese snow was