In recent years, China’s lead role in establishing new multilateral institutions - including the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Asian Infrastructure...
Kazakhstan’s former President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who resigned in March after nearly 30 years in power, was a great admirer of the Singaporean leader Lee...
The Amazon rainforest has been burning for weeks.
The idea that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is a man of the people, a tribune of the common man fighting the established elites, might seem anomalous,...
As Lebanese political leaders kick off their mission to rescue the economy with a conference called for by President Michel Aoun, the one indisputable fact is...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s intransigence has been locked in high gear for the past few months.
Richard Stengel, a former Time editor who became the State Department’s undersecretary for public diplomacy, writes that he was once an information “idealist.”
You could say many things to describe a week in which President Trump got in a snit about buying Greenland, called the Federal Reserve chairman an “enemy,”...
U.S. President Donald Trump’s behavior at the recent G-7 meeting in Biarritz was criticized as careless and disruptive by many observers.
A monetary-policy regime centered on quantitative easing and zero or even negative interest rates has created an extraordinarily permissive environment for...
Is it time for the United States to consider switching from income tax to a progressive consumption tax as a way of addressing growing wealth inequality?
Earlier this year, Tropical Cyclone Idai tore through southern Africa, killing hundreds, injuring thousands and displacing even more.
This November, Germany will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. But the country is in a gloomy mood, and cheers will be few and far...
We live in an era of hyperbole, in which gripping accounts of monumental triumphs and devastating disasters take precedence over realistic discussions of...
The Indian government’s recent decision to revoke Kashmir’s special semi-autonomous status has raised fears of yet another conflict with Pakistan over the...
Nowadays, making an investment - whether in shares, bonds, property, gold, lottery tickets, or the latest startup - is quick and easy.
With the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall approaching, the issue of freedom has returned to the fore in Moscow and Hong Kong, albeit under very...
The long-running tragicomedy of the United Kingdom’s relationship with the European Union is, at long last, approaching its climax.
When I was a bright-eyed eighth grader in my native Sri Lanka, I couldn’t wait for my first sex education class. In our early teens, my classmates and I were...
If China’s engagement with Gulf countries has gathered much attention from Middle Eastern policy circles over the last five years, another parallel...
Before the G-7 summit in Biarritz, France, this month, it was a toss-up whether the greater disruption would come from U.S. President Donald Trump or British...
or decades, Hezbollah has threatened the stability and security of Lebanon and the region by perpetrating terrorism against innocent civilians, needlessly...
Recession fears are gripping Europe and spreading globally.
The African Continental Free Trade Area, launched at the 12th Extraordinary Summit of African Union Heads of State and Government in July 2019, is the largest...
The Business Roundtable, an association of the most powerful chief executive officers in America, announced this month that the era of shareholder primacy is...
The Swedish climate truthsayer Greta Thunberg has set sail for the United States in a zero-emissions racing yacht to generate waves in a different part of the...
Ever since Boris Johnson moved into 10 Downing Street vowing to renegotiate the United Kingdom’s withdrawal agreement with the European Union, the...
The world is experiencing the highest levels of forced migration on record. Conflict, natural disasters, and other emergencies have driven more than 70...
It’s only a matter of time until the escalating tensions between China and the United States prompt many more economists to warn of an impending global...