For more than a century, Japan has pioneered global political trends. That it is now gravitating, truly for the first time, towards a revitalizing democratic West speaks volumes.

The Nobel Peace Prize has a checkered history, to put it mildly. Here’s why.

The galvanizing and controversial author of Coming Apart discusses reactions to his latest work and defends the libertarian perspective.

The reserve currency status of the U.S. dollar, for good and for ill, will erode neither quickly nor dramatically. But change it will.

The Fed’s post-September 2008 monetary policy hasn’t worked as usual to stimulate a recovery. The reason lies in the unprecedented depths of the housing collapse. Conclusion: The United States must export its way to robust growth, as other countries have done.

Common knowledge about the relationship between demographic pressures and economics is commonly wrong. Under current, and especially future, social and technological circumstances, the more people the better.

The stakeholder model of China’s full integration into the current liberal global order fails to reckon with the worldview and political interests of the Chinese Communist Party.

Seen from Kazakhstan, China looms as a change-maker and a potential big problem. Pro-Russian sentiment in Central Asia is thus more than just nostalgia.

Black gold might soon be gushing from the Kansas soil, according to AP. Drilling has only just started but the oil is attracting speculators from all over. Ancient land records are being pulled off of courthouse shelves in a frenzy; land that cost $30 an acre is now fetching $3000.The familiar signs of an oil boom […]

On Easter Sunday, around 40 people were killed in another deadly church bombing in the city of Kaduna, in nothern Nigeria. While nobody has claimed responsibility, it is is widely believed to be Boko Haram’s doing.The persistent attacks across the region on churches, schools and police stations (all of which represent establishments that the group […]