Opposition to "free" trade is not opposition to trade.

Editor,

The NYT surreptitiously dropped the adjective "free" from it's arguments for "free" trade a few weeks ago and ever since has been equating opposition to "free" trade with opposition to "trade".

Clearly, since you are the ones who dropped the "free" from "free" trade, you are aware that "free" trade is good for corporations, good for speculators, good for international "investors", and that it is bad for workers in developing economies, bad for American workers, bad for the planet Earth, and bad for everyone who lives on it.

Whether "trade" is good or bad is not the issue. Corporations running roughshod over workers here AND ABROAD is the issue, as is corporations doing whatever they damn well please anywhere on the planet while civil society watches helplessly in horror.