Why Do the NYT and Economists Feel the Need to Lie to Push Trade Agreements

The NYT is inadvertently doing a good job convincing people that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a really bad deal. (I'm picking on the TPP because that is the trade deal currently on the agenda.) The reason that the NYT is making readers believe that the TPP is a really bad deal is that it is obviously lying to push the case for trade -- and you don't have to lie if you have a real case.

The outright lie in this case is its effort to trivialize the job loss due to trade in the United...