U.S. President Donald Trump has boasted that his policies will produce sustained 3 to 4 percent growth for many years to come.
At the end of August, French President Emmanuel Macron unveiled the labor-market overhaul that will make or break his presidency – and may well determine the...
With every new crisis that the world faces, humanity’s differences appear increasingly intractable.
Mosquitoes may be tiny, but they have a powerful bite.
Lebanese politicians have again demonstrated that their approach to the Constitution is little different from consulting Wikipedia.
A country’s constitution is an inherent part of its identity and the foundation on which a nation is built.
When you discount the rhetorical overkill, the most surprising thing about President Donald Trump’s address to the United Nations Tuesday was how conventional...
Seeing the devastating effects of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma and of wildfires out West, one cannot help but think about the crucial role that government plays...
Hurricane Harvey has left in its wake upended lives and enormous property damage, estimated by some at $150 billion to $180 billion.
Transformation is a general term that we have frequently been using in development literature without knowing its exact definition, which varies from one...
Joe Arpaio, the former sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, who was convicted of contempt of court for defying a federal judge’s order to stop racially...
The ghastly spectacle last month of neo-Nazis marching through Charlottesville, Virginia, carrying torches and barking slogans about the supremacy of the...
Shock belts, spiked batons, and electrified thumbscrews can serve no other purpose than to inflict pain on people.
In September 2015, the leaders of 193 countries agreed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals – the most ambitious plan ever to promote human...
Not too long ago, the only journalists working in conflict areas who might be afforded protection were those working for wealthy, predominantly Western news...
The primary focus of this year’s Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, which convenes the world’s leading central bankers,...
Most pundits agree that the least bad way to deal with North Korea’s nuclear saber rattling is a continued combination of tight containment and aggressive...
The United States has never had a president like Donald Trump. With a narcissistic personality and a short attention span, and lacking experience in world...
On a holiday weekend set aside to honor the American working class, it is hard to escape the sense that American workers find themselves exploited by our...
The United States and China have reached a precarious moment in their relationship.
After a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which anti-fascist campaigner Heather Heyer was killed, and many others injured, U.S....
There are three years remaining until the Centennial of Greater Lebanon.
When Indonesia declared independence from Dutch rule in 1945, the country’s founder, Sukarno, called on his people to build a nation that would “stand in...
In recent weeks, bizarre political controversies have dominated the American and German media.
To the great poet T.S. Eliot, “April is the cruelest month.”
International political opinion about the future of Syria’s President Bashar Assad has shifted.
Donald Trump was combative at his news conference on Aug. 15. “This week it’s Robert E. Lee,” he said. “I noticed that Stonewall Jackson is coming down.
Jeannie Rousseau de Clarens, one of the remarkable spies of World War II, died last week in France at the age of 98. Like so many intelligence officers, she...
On April 9, 1948, 120 fighters from the Irgun and Lehi Zionist paramilitary groups attacked Deir Yassin, near Jerusalem, a Palestinian-Arab village of...