There is a growing consensus that capitalism needs to be reimagined. The influential Business Roundtable in the United States recently issued an appeal for...
Vladimir Putin may be setting himself up to remain Russia’s leader well beyond the end of his presidency, to no one’s surprise. In his annual...
As global business and political leaders gather in Davos for the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting, they should ask themselves one big question: Will the...
At the start of a new decade, many commentators are understandably focused on the health of the global economy. GDP growth this decade most likely will be...
More than 4 million Lebanese have become hostages to the authorities and those behind the formation of a badly needed government, falsely branded as the...
The sunshine of a new decade is about to part the clouds of 2019, and Lebanon welcomes the new year with a new shawl.
As the world’s business elites trek to Davos for their annual gathering, people should be asking a simple question: Have they overcome their infatuation with...
When Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani was killed two weeks ago, his death may have drawn the curtain on the Iranian revolution that he symbolized.
A widespread and unseemly controversy has broken out in India over the Citizenship Amendment Act passed by the Indian Parliament in December 2019 that fast...
Niger’s government is sounding the alarm about bogus meningitis vaccines - and it is not the first time.
The new year began with yet another senseless foreign-policy decision by U.S. President Donald Trump.
White nationalism is on the rise in the United States.
This October, representatives of the 196 parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity will gather in Kunming, China, to finalize a new...
How did we get there?
On Jan. 5, masked men and women stormed the New Delhi campus of Jawaharlal Nehru University, where I am a professor, and attacked the students and faculty...
While denizens of the world’s wealthiest economies debate the fate and fortune of the middle class, over 800 million people worldwide have no access to...
Foreign critics of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan deride him as a quasi-dictatorial megalomaniac. But Erdogan, who was Turkey’s prime minister for 11...
The recent tense, dangerous exchanges between the United States and Iran have revealed a great deal about U.S. President Donald Trump’s management of his...
During times of national economic difficulties, families begin to cope with changes by adopting other expenditure strategies that are meant to aid them in...
The news from Lebanon in recent weeks has been grim. As street protests in Beirut and other cities intensify, so does the country’s economic suffering.
If the global economy were a chess game, few pieces would be left on the board. Most would be relegated to the role of bystanders, observing a concentration...
Responding to pressures from within and without, the economics profession is gradually changing for the better. Not surprisingly, the populist backlash...
President Ronald Reagan liked to tell a joke about a hopeful little boy pawing through a big pile of horse dung under his Christmas tree, saying cheerily:...
Three months ago, Donald Trump suddenly withdrew American forces from northern Syria that were, in part, thwarting Iran’s efforts to dominate the country,...
After a year that involved one of the biggest U-turns in recent monetary-policy history, central banks are now hoping for peace and quiet in 2020.
President Donald Trump was wrong last week when he said that the U.S. doesn’t need Middle East oil.