One of the assumptions that economists sometimes use to frame their models is to specify that some variables will be held constant, a concept that’s expressed...
When confronting bad news these days, many tend to assume that it’s just a bump on the road and that things will work out.
A conference here to gather American business and military experts to discuss the coming revolution in artificial intelligence was a good Election-Day measure...
When President Trump issues an election-time order to send up to 15,000 troops to confront what many experts say is a nonexistent threat on the U.S.-Mexico...
After a tense few days, courtesy of a fiery speech over the weekend by Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah that seemed to smother any possibility of a...
Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah didn’t mince words over the weekend, coming out with a loud-and-clear, “My way or the highway,” abandoning any...
While the bombastic U.S.-China “trade war” has been getting the headlines, U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement agencies have been waging a quieter battle to...
On Nov. 2, at least seven Egyptian Christians were shot dead and another 17 injured in an attack on a minibus leaving a baptism at the Monastery of Saint...
A cluster of small Pacific islands is poised to make history in the management of global fish stocks.
BERLIN Politically, 2019 will be an extraordinarily important year for the European Union.
For those who believe that President Donald Trump is a clownish know-nothing who somehow tapped into the mood of the electorate or just got lucky in 2016, the...
U.S. President Donald Trump claims credit for “the greatest ever” economy, and constantly contrasts economic conditions today with the historically weak...
Jair Bolsonaro, the frontrunner for the Brazilian presidency, is a far-right, gun-loving, media-baiting hyper-nationalist.
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
In discussions about the implications of artificial intelligence (AI), someone almost always evokes the ancient Greek myth of Pandora’s box.
First, the agribusiness giants came to take our land and disrupt our food systems with synthetic pesticides, fertilizers, proprietary seeds, and genetically...
The world is finally waking up to the threat posed by one of the most overlooked diseases of our time.
When the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) was announced, it was met by a sigh of relief around the world.
The Trump administration’s most significant and lasting decisions will be about U.S. policy toward China.
One of the most satisfying moments in any spy thriller is when the bad guy the black-hat operative who has been killing and tormenting his adversaries does...
The most consequential casualty of the recent confirmation battle is not Christine Blasey Ford or Brett Kavanaugh.
President Donald Trump seems convinced that he has found the formula for success in foreign policy: Bully your adversaries, sanction them, squeeze them and...
Reading Greg Miller’s gripping new account of President Trump’s entanglement in the Russia investigation, it’s striking just how many of the president’s...