BERKELEY – A government that does not tax sufficiently to cover its spending will eventually run into all manner of debt-generated trouble. …

PRINCETON – America has grown up. Public reaction to the Boston Marathon bombings and the identity of the perpetrators reveals a very differ…

CAMBRIDGE – The opaque nature of China’s government makes it difficult to see where Chinese economic policy is heading, and thus how the Chi…

MUMBAI – The ongoing weakness of America’s economy – where deleveraging in the private and public sectors continues apace – has led to stubb…

LONDON – As Syria’s civil war has progressed, the West’s views on arming the opposition have become increasingly confused, which reflects th…

TOKYO – China’s refusal to attend this year’s summit with Japan and South Korea as scheduled comes at a trying moment for all three countrie…

NEW HAVEN – At 7.7%, China’s annual GDP growth in the first quarter of this year was slower than many expected. While the data were hardly d…

OSAKA – Do China’s rulers have full civilian control of their country’s military? Asian governments are now regularly asking themselves that…

PARIS – In May 1981, Pope John Paul II survived an assassination attempt. Thirty years later, Osama bin Laden was killed by United States Sp…

GENEVA – As delegates from 189 countries gather to prepare for the next Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference, due in 201…

LEUVEN – We may not be fully aware of it, but future generations will likely consider our era truly historic. Never before has mankind been …

NAIROBI – How profitable are the world’s major industrial and agricultural sectors? According to a new report by the London-based consultanc…

BOSTON – The so-called Arab Spring generated a wave of hope among those fighting or advocating for democratization of the Arab world’s autho…

BRUSSELS/MEXICO CITY – Since the global economic downturn began in 2008, debate has centered on the macroeconomic strategies and instruments…

NEW YORK – Long ago, I worked as an analyst on Wall Street. The first company that I analyzed was Federal Express, which at the time had not…

WASHINGTON, DC – There are two competing narratives about recent financial-reform efforts and the dangers that very large banks now pose aro…

SINGAPORE – The election of a new pope always sparks debate about the tension between tradition and modernity in the Catholic Church. Perhap…

DENVER – “Insanity,” Albert Einstein is reported to have said, is “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.…

CAPE TOWN – A world in which our children and their children grow up free from the threat of polio and other preventable diseases is a dream…

LOS ANGELES – Since Syria’s civil war erupted, its large chemical-weapons arsenal has haunted the conflict zone and beyond. Now Israel says …

MOSCOW – Whose fault is it that the Boston Marathon was bombed? Is Russia to blame for 250 years of trying to incorporate the Muslim North C…

WASHINGTON, DC – One thing that experts know, and that non-experts do not, is that they know less than non-experts think they do. This much …

PRAGUE – Two years have passed since Myanmar (Burma) held its first general election after more than two decades of military dictatorship. T…

MUNICH – Last summer, the financier George Soros urged Germany to agree to the establishment of the European Stability Mechanism, calling on…

ABU DHABI/NEW YORK – For a child, receiving a vaccine takes just a moment (and perhaps a few tears). But such moments are crucial for gettin…