Bill Emmott
Bill Emmott is a former editor-in-chief of The Economist.
Demographic aging is the social and economic equivalent of climate change – a problem that we all know must be addressed, but which we’d rather leave for future generations to solve. Unfortunately, pr… read more
It may be true that there is no gain without pain, but there can be pain without gain – a lesson that Western populations have been learning the hard way since at least 2012. Years of fiscal austerity… read more
As America’s friends and allies look on in astonishment at the all-but-certain prospect of a contest between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in November’s US presidential election, they need to do mo… read more
As Donald Trump's presidential campaign in the US continues to rack up successes, pundits are scrambling for some historical or foreign analogue that can shed light on the phenomenon. The most apt is … read more
The dramatic drop in hydrocarbon prices will produce economic winners and losers. But the biggest dangers will be political, especially for rigid authoritarian regimes that have depended on high oil p… read more
The new fault line in politics, according to Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s far-right National Front Party, is between globalists and patriots. This argument is as dangerous as it is false, which i… read more
The sailing of a US warship within 12 miles of one of China’s new artificial islands in the South China Sea represents the most daring American military intervention in years. If China's self-serving … read more
Throughout Europe’s refugee crisis, which has been building for well over two years now, warnings about the threat to the EU's precious Schengen Area of border-free travel have proliferated. But, at a… read more
Something has gone badly wrong in the emerging economies that were supposed to shape the world's future. Although falling commodity prices, fracking, US interest rates, and other factors have been bla… read more
