Data Say Job Loss Is Due to Imports, Washington Post Says "It's the Robots"

When it comes to talking honestly about the impact of trade on the labor market few papers flunk the test as badly as the Washington Post. It is a consistent and unreflective supporter of the pro-business trade policy that has been pursued by administrations of both parties for the last four decades.

Regular Beat the Press readers know how in an editorial defending NAFTA the paper absurdly claimed that Mexico's GDP quadrupled between 1987 and 2007. According to the I.M.F., the actual gro...