2019-03-20
Over the past few years, the US Federal Reserve has been ahead of other major central banks in normalizing monetary policy.
2019-03-18
The attack in New Zealand was inspired in part by the Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, but the real threat is lone wolves lurking in the far corners of the Internet.
The Middle East’s latest protests seem like the Arab Spring all over again. That’s no reason for optimism.
There is nothing wrong with using technology to solve problems, including those created by technology, or to give a company a competitive edge.
2019-03-16
The gunman who massacred Muslims was inspired by ideas that have circulated for decades on the French far-right.
The British prime minister must choose between politics and principle when it comes to pulling her country out of the European Union. Tony Blair’s experience offers a lesson.
suddenly, capitalism is visibly sick. The virus of socialism has reemerged and is infecting the young once more
2019-03-13
Although economists are well positioned to imagine new institutional arrangements, their habit of thinking at the margin and sticking close to the evidence at hand encourages an aversion to radical change...
2019-03-11
A new joint resolution introduced in the Senate calls on the executive branch to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan within one year...
Pakistan fears two things more than war with India: pressure from Washington and indifference from Beijing...
Many people cannot grasp how anyone could possibly support a coarse, narcissistic fantasist like US President Donald Trump...
2019-03-05
n our efficiency-obsessed society, new technologies are deployed with the single-minded objective of boosting productivity and eliminating the need for human labor
The mood of the meeting went from optimistic on Wednesday to collapse on Thursday
2019-02-23
President urges parliament to delay constitutional amendment allowing him to run for reelection in 2020
2019-02-13
After US orchestrated the challenge to President Maduro legitimacy in Venezuela and recognizing the leader of general assembly Guaido as an interim president...
What will it take for Washington to accept Iran as a “normal” state
2019-02-06
In his first hundred days on the job, Adel Abdul Mahdi has hit entrenched political roadblocks to choosing cabinet ministers and changing a system of political patronage.
Our diets are becoming less healthy, and global food production is increasingly unsustainable. A new report suggests that the planet can sustainably provide a healthy diet for ten billion people in the future...
2019-02-03
At the recent World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, participants made the same mistake they always do
National security adviser John Bolton traveled to Israel this month to reassure jittery officials in Jerusalem that the Trump administration
2019-01-16
Over the course of this year and next, the biggest economic risks will emerge in those areas where investors think recent patterns are unlikely to change
2019-01-15
The main argument is that it is a mistake to think that ISIS has been defeated just because the last town that it held has been liberated...
Over a period of mere days in late December the Trump administration made two troop withdrawal decisions that startled Washington
2019-01-12
Time magazine did not choose Donald Trump as its Person of the Year in 2018, but it may do so this year
2019-01-08
Even if American troops come home in a timely fashion, they will likely return before long
