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...
It is now common knowledge that many democracies around the world are under pressure.
On his weeklong tour of Asia, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence has been promoting a vision of a “free and open” Indo-Pacific region, characterized by unimpeded...
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...
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.
Almost all liberals support globalization and oppose economic nationalism.
When pro-government forces recaptured the southwestern rebel stronghold of Deraa province in July, Mohammed Sabsabi’s colleagues tried to bury their pasts.
Today, the freedom of opinion and expression, which is one of the components of democracy, is in great danger.
Economics teaches that the measure of an individual’s well-being is the quantity and variety of goods he or she can consume.
Technology is often oversold as either a panacea for the world’s problems or an unshakeable curse inflicting disruption and displacement on the most vulnerable.
The drama of Donald Trump’s presidency has centered around whether an extremist president would be able to carry out an extremist policy agenda against the...
Leaders from around the world gathered in Paris Sunday to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that ended World War I, at the 11th hour, of the...
When China finally has its inevitable growth recession, which will almost surely be amplified by a financial crisis, given the economy’s massive leverage, how...
By reimposing sanctions on Iran, the U.S. is “simply trying to squeeze more out of the Iranians using a slightly lesser tool sanctions functionally equivalent...
It has been three years since world leaders committed to one of the boldest goals ever set in global public health: achieving universal health coverage by 2030.
At least it wasn’t a disaster. If the Democrats had failed to secure a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. President Donald Trump would have...
On Brexit day March 29, 2019 the HMS Buccaneer Britannia will set sail in search of the riches of the “Anglosphere.” But there is a hitch: Someone has...
What would the ghosts of 1918 not just the soldiers who were slaughtered in the trenches of World War I, but the statesmen who failed to make a durable peace...
Adel Abdel-Mahdi, a former finance minister, oil minister and vice president of Iraq, barely managed to secure a confidence vote of two-thirds of his Cabinet...
November 2018 marks the 10th anniversary of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing program, undoubtedly the boldest policy experiment in the history...
“The Iranian regime has a choice,” U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo thundered this week.
On a visit to Beijing in October, I was often asked whether U.S. Vice President Mike Pence’s recent harsh criticism of China marked the declaration of a new...
The 2018 congressional midterm elections, which began shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump was projected as the winner of the 2016 elections, are finally...
According to the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world’s main scientific authority on global warming, keeping global...
The United States has long held itself up as a bastion of democracy.
This year marks a decade since the global financial crisis erupted. For the United States, 2018 is very different from 2008.