Emerging markets have performed amazingly well over the last seven years. In many cases, they have far outperformed the advanced…
Citing an escalating dispute over islands in the East China Sea, The Economist warned last week that “China and Japan are sliding toward…
In late November and early December of last year, some 195 national delegations met in Durban, South Africa, for the 17th Conference of the…
The year has started well for financial markets. Equities are generally up. European sovereigns have borrowed with an ease that has…
“You get to ask the questions you like. I get to give the answers I like,” Mitt Romney told a reporter dissatisfied with an evasive answer…
What to do about an increasingly truculent and threatening Iran is now the most important foreign policy challenge of 2012. Republican…
A paradox of American higher education is this: The expectations of leading universities do much to define what secondary schools teach,…
The cloak of inevitability that Mitt Romney has been wearing -- on again, off again -- is suddenly and dramatically off again. Just as he…
I work for the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard's Kennedy School. Roy L. Ash, who died last month, stood for…
China’s president, Hu Jintao, greeted 2012 with an important essay warning that China was being battered by Western culture: “We must…