The recent exchange between Joe Stiglitz and Larry Summers about “secular stagnation” and its relation to the tepid economic recovery after the 2008-2009...
When I was 8 years old, a family friend told my father that he thought I was destined for leadership. My dad never let me forget that heady observation, and...
China’s family planning policy of the 1970s – as an urgent and necessary measure to limit the growth of its huge population – prevented an estimated 400...
Over the last two decades, many tools and tactics for preventing violent extremism were used to address symptoms rather than drivers.
For 70 years, since the creation of Israel, the U.S. has involved itself in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, often putting the Jewish state’s interests above...
It has grown impossible not to recognize that Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu have reached the final stretch in their bid to wipe out the Palestinian...
For several years now, scholars have argued that the world is experiencing a “democratic recession.”
The public conversation this past week was dominated by a book about a man who is obsessed with winning, President Donald Trump.
U.S. President Donald J. Trump on Sept. 12 issued a new executive order authorizing sanctions in response to interference in U.S. elections, likely as an...
Labor advocates have long complained that international trade agreements are driven by corporate agendas and pay little attention to the interests of working...
The message from Washington these days appears to be that severing the link between the Taliban and Pakistan is the silver bullet for peace in Afghanistan. It...
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration decided last month to cut all funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which provides schools,...
After the 2008 global financial crisis, a consensus emerged that the public sector had a responsibility to intervene to bail out systemically important banks...
One day in 1961, an American economist named Daniel Ellsberg stumbled across a piece of paper with apocalyptic implications. Ellsberg, who was advising the...
On Sept. 1, Michelle Bachelet, the former president of Chile, took office as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Ten years ago, the global financial system was rocked by the largest crisis since the Great Depression.
For obvious reasons, the sight of a German mob chasing foreigners through the streets and throwing up their arms in Hitler salutes is particularly disturbing.
Next month, a judge in Oregon will begin hearing a case brought against the United States government on behalf of 21 young people, supported by the non-profit...
Much will be said about the tenth anniversary of the 2008 financial crisis, so I will focus on the global economy, which has not been nearly as weak as many...
Although much has been made of Tunisia’s political transition, there has been negligible improvement to the democratic control of the security and defense...
The unnamed insiders who claim to be working clandestinely to resist U.S. President Donald Trump are not heroes.
Every day seems to bring a new revelation about Russia’s political meddling in Western countries. From Twitter trolls sowing discord among voters, to the...
The decision by U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to stop funding the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near...
From Argentina to Turkey and from South Africa to Indonesia, emerging markets are once again being roiled by financial turbulence.
You would not know it from reading the news, but the Iran nuclear deal is still alive.
In July, I joined 43 other scholars of international relations in paying for a newspaper advertisement arguing that the U.S. should preserve the current...
When the Soviet Union imploded in 1991, the Communist Party of China became obsessed with understanding why.
Two months before renewed U.S. sanctions on its oil exports take effect, Iran has already suffered a sharp drop in sales and lost key buyers in Asia and Europe.
This is indeed “Crazytown,” as a quote from Bob Woodward’s new book describes it, and we are watching a “nervous breakdown.”