Hong Kong is not Beijing. And July 1, 2019, is not June 4, 1989.
The past few months have witnessed intense discussions around the national budget that are still taking place until this moment.
You have lost your wallet.
The escalating rivalry between China and the United States is ushering in a bipolar world.
The recent crackdowns on undocumented foreign labor in Lebanon which appear to target Syrian and Palestinian refugees are quite worrisome, as they raise...
Israel’s recent moves in the West Bank, which all aim at annexation, expropriation and evictions, have made the purpose of the Bahrain conference very clear.
Here’s the most intriguing fact about Iran’s apparent seizure Saturday of a small oil tanker about 380 kilometers northwest of Muscat: Thus far, it has...
Democratic candidates for president should get smart about America’s confrontation with Iran: Rather than seek only to restore the 2015 nuclear deal, they...
Although much derided by climate change deniers, not least U.S. President Donald Trump, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal hits the nail on the head...
Russian President Vladimir Putin recently told the Financial Times that “the liberal idea has become obsolete,” drawing a wave of earnest rebuttals.
The haggling may have been unedifying, but the candidates nominated by the European Council to lead the European Union’s governing institutions are...
The contenders for the U.S. Democratic Party’s presidential nomination have held their first debates, and the main questions reverberating in political and...
By 2050, one-quarter of the world’s population will be African, which means that one in eight people will be an African woman.
Today’s crisis of conservatism has produced surprisingly few books that try to understand what exactly has happened to the venerable creed. For decades,...
U.S. President Donald Trump has been accused of weaponizing economic globalization. Sanctions, tariffs and the restriction of access to dollars have been...
Nearly every country has some way to go to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls by 2030, in line with United Nations Sustainable...
While the world frets about a possible conflict between the United States and Iran, the bloodshed in Syria is escalating once again.
Facebook and some of its corporate allies have decided that what the world really needs is another cryptocurrency, and that launching one is the best way to...
From infrastructure damage caused by extreme weather events to drought-induced food insecurity, there are many climate risks for which the world should...
U.S. President Donald Trump has based his foreign policy on a series of harsh economic blockades, each designed to frighten, coerce, and even starve the...
The terrible experience of the 1930s should remind us that trade and currency wars go together like a horse and carriage. Now that U.S. President Donald...
The massive protests in Hong Kong in recent weeks have demonstrated the depth of its citizens’ determination to uphold their democratic way of life -...
Many place their expectations on the G20, a system that engulfed the world through two financial crises.
Facebook’s new global digital currency, Libra, which the company plans to launch as early as 2020, could transform the world.
One can only guess what U.S. President Donald Trump hopes to achieve in Iran.
“Man shall not live by bread alone,” Jesus says in Matthew 4:4.
Wherever one looks - the media, political leaders’ rhetoric, or online discussions - one finds a bias toward bad ideals.
Given President Trump’s mean-spirited and often bigoted attitudes on immigration, it pains me to say that he is right that the United States faces a crisis...
In a globalized world, migration is a fact of life that should be governed accordingly. To that end, it is time to establish what I call “Migration Order...