A turbulent and all-too-violent 2013 across the globe illuminates just how far we are from the age-old dream of peace on earth as the…
Financial crises cast a long shadow on investment. For nine major Asian economies, average investment as a share of GDP declined sharply…
Colin Powell, America's premier soldier-statesman, put it best. Diplomats, he said, are "the first line of offense of America's foreign…
For Americans who remember Nov. 22, 1963, there is an understandable temptation to dwell on the nearly unbearable tragedy of that day. I…
Seemingly everywhere he turns these days, President Obama is facing criticism of his foreign policy leadership. And the critics aren’t the…
The plight of the Affordable Care Act Web site has focused attention on a problem that seldom receives it — the absence of good management…
The authors address the indisputable fact that high real interest rates place an added burden on debtors, whether they are households,…
Professor Burns discusses the high-stakes diplomatic talks in Geneva between Iran and the United States, and the diplomatic strategies at…
Washington, D.C. is again in the grip of its long-running budgetary soap opera. Episode 1, “Fiscal Cliffs,” was followed shortly by “…
The federal government shutdown has done serious harm to the public and threatens to create even more havoc as it veers toward a once…