While Brexit captures the headlines in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, the silent march of automation continues.
As we enter the last quarter of 2019 (and of the decade), cyclical indicators point to a slowing world economy amid wide-ranging structural challenges.
Ever since the double disasters of 2016 - the United Kingdom’s Brexit referendum and U.S. President Donald Trump’s election - there has been widespread...
Nine months after the passage of Law 105 on Missing and Forcibly Disappeared Persons in Lebanon, the Lebanese Justice Ministry nominated 10 individuals,...
The two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict has suffered blow after blow over the years.
As Lebanese political leaders kick off their mission to rescue the economy with a conference called for by President Michel Aoun, the one indisputable fact is...
As tens of thousands of protesters marched down Hennessy Road toward government headquarters Sunday afternoon, chanting pro-democracy slogans and waving...
Six weeks ago, Turkey was threatening to invade the Kurdish region of northeast Syria.
Britain’s long-running Brexit saga has thrown up a new argument.
At a time of economic recession and belt tightening, calls are emerging for a lofty and unrealistic defense policy that Lebanon can ill afford. Indeed,...
On Sept. 8, Sudan’s first civilian Cabinet in 30 years was sworn in. Led by Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and comprising technocrats, it will oversee a...
In many developing countries, women come together on a regular basis to contribute their earnings to a common pot. Together, these microcontributions can pay...
Under the patronage of Prime Minister Saad Hariri, Minister of Finance Ali Hassan Khalil, launched the “Citizen Budget 2019” that was developed by the...
Gen. Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who will retire this month, is that rare senior official in President Donald Trump’s Washington...
The global transition from carbon-intensive fossil fuels to cleaner, more reliable renewables like wind and solar is already well underway.
As he moves on to his fourth national security adviser in less than three years, it’s become clear that U.S. President Donald Trump’s foreign policy is in...
On Sept. 24-25, world leaders will gather at the United Nations in New York to review progress toward the U.N.’s 2030 Agenda and its 17 Sustainable...
Having met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un three times - all to great fanfare - U.S. President Donald Trump may still believe that denuclearization is...
At the beginning of classes every autumn, I tease my students with the following question: Is it better to be poor in a rich country or rich in a poor country?
Investors and economic observers have begun to ask the same question that I posed in an article published 18 years ago: “Who lost Argentina?”
In 1953, when Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, I was 7 years old.
Britain’s Tories are arguably the most successful political party of the modern age.
In recent years, China’s lead role in establishing new multilateral institutions - including the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Asian Infrastructure...
The Amazon rainforest has been burning for weeks.
Kazakhstan’s former President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who resigned in March after nearly 30 years in power, was a great admirer of the Singaporean leader Lee...
The idea that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is a man of the people, a tribune of the common man fighting the established elites, might seem anomalous,...
U.S. President Donald Trump’s behavior at the recent G-7 meeting in Biarritz was criticized as careless and disruptive by many observers.
A monetary-policy regime centered on quantitative easing and zero or even negative interest rates has created an extraordinarily permissive environment for...
Earlier this year, Tropical Cyclone Idai tore through southern Africa, killing hundreds, injuring thousands and displacing even more.