The 14 months since Hosni Mubarak’s overthrow have not been kind to those who yearn for a free Egypt. A military junta rules, Islamists…
Henry A. Kissinger and James A. Baker III, now octogenarians, returned to the public spotlight recently to remind us of the timeless…
In the past, industrial countries have tended to pursue countercyclical or, at worst, acyclical fiscal policy. In sharp contrast, emerging…
The large economies have each, in sequence, offered “models” that once seemed attractive to others but that eventually gave way to…
Countries with oil, mineral or other natural resource wealth, on average, have failed to show better economic performance than those…
We explore a framework that could be used to assign quantitative allocations of emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), across all countries…
Miami Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen’s five-game suspension for claiming his "love" for Cuban leader Fidel Castro shows nothing more than…
Outsiders must be a little mystified as to why the Obama administration’s nomination of Jim Young Kim to lead the World Bank has kicked up…
Two years ago, a piece of faulty computer code infected Iran's nuclear program and destroyed many of the centrifuges used to enrich uranium…
With all the problems in education these days, Arizona’s state superintendent of public instruction, John Huppenthal, thinks he has the…