An outbreak of a new coronavirus that began in the Chinese city of Wuhan has already infected over 4,000 people - mostly in China, but also in several other...
When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the new Ebola vaccine Ervebo last month, I was elated. Ervebo can generate a quick immune response after a...
The panic generated by the new coronavirus, 2019-nCov, which originated in Wuhan, one of China’s largest cities and a major domestic transport hub, reminds...
Under President Ursula von der Leyen, the new European Commission has big plans to address climate change.
Fifty years ago, the respected British philosopher Bertrand Russell, who devoted his life to the search for peace with justice
More than 4 million Lebanese have become hostages to the authorities and those behind the formation of a badly needed government, falsely branded as the...
Donald Trump’s speech here at the World Economic Forum went over relatively well.
As America weighs abuses of power in this season of impeachment and trial, it’s worth taking a careful second look at the FBI’s behavior in its “Crossfire...
Discussions about economic development often focus on how to increase income equality.
At its annual flagship meeting in Davos, Switzerland, this year, the World Economic Forum called on companies from around the world to commit to reducing...
We have suddenly arrived at a tricky stage in global economic development.
Following America’s disastrous 1930 Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, the subsequent international trade war, and eventually World War II, the United States went on to...
“Great nations do not fight endless wars,” U.S. President Donald Trump declared in his 2019 State of the Union speech.
The European Union, and particularly Germany, have yet to rise to the challenge posed by the United States’ retreat from global leadership.
For much of the post-Cold-War era, issues like trade, scientific research and climate change were largely insulated from considerations of global competition.
The diffusion of artificial intelligence across the economy has raised the possibility - and for many, the fear - that machines will eventually replace human...
Vladimir Putin may be setting himself up to remain Russia’s leader well beyond the end of his presidency, to no one’s surprise. In his annual...
As global business and political leaders gather in Davos for the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting, they should ask themselves one big question: Will the...
There is a growing consensus that capitalism needs to be reimagined. The influential Business Roundtable in the United States recently issued an appeal for...
At the start of a new decade, many commentators are understandably focused on the health of the global economy. GDP growth this decade most likely will be...
As the world’s business elites trek to Davos for their annual gathering, people should be asking a simple question: Have they overcome their infatuation with...
When Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani was killed two weeks ago, his death may have drawn the curtain on the Iranian revolution that he symbolized.
A widespread and unseemly controversy has broken out in India over the Citizenship Amendment Act passed by the Indian Parliament in December 2019 that fast...
Niger’s government is sounding the alarm about bogus meningitis vaccines - and it is not the first time.
The new year began with yet another senseless foreign-policy decision by U.S. President Donald Trump.
This October, representatives of the 196 parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity will gather in Kunming, China, to finalize a new...
White nationalism is on the rise in the United States.
How did we get there?
On Jan. 5, masked men and women stormed the New Delhi campus of Jawaharlal Nehru University, where I am a professor, and attacked the students and faculty...