This week the world’s richest and most powerful people, including 119 billionaires with a collective worth of $500 billion, ascended to the small Swiss Alps town of Davos in a stream of private…

Capitalism is in crisis. Until recently, that conviction was confined to the left. Today, however, it has gained traction across the political spectrum in advanced economies. Economists, policymakers…

The verdict is in onU.S.PresidentDonald Trump’strade war withChina. Regardless of whetherU.S.negotiators soon reach a deal withBeijing, the administration’s initial gambit has run aground…

It has almost become the new Washington consensus: decades of growing economic openness have hurt American workers, increased inequality, and gutted the middle class, and new restrictions on trade…

In late June, the leaders ofChinaandthe United Statesannounced at the G-20 meeting inOsaka, Japan, that they had reached a détente in their trade war.U.S.PresidentDonald Trumpclaimed that the two…

Natural resources are a funny thing in the Middle East; some states in the region suffer from a general scarcity of water while others have abundant sources of water. The presence of oil has brought…

In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), climate change is an especially urgent issue, particularly as it has already triggered devastating weather events, including prolonged droughts, flash…

Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese continued staging their extraordinary revolt against their politicians after Prime Minister Saad Hariri proposed a list of reforms approved by his cabinet on Monday…

As world leaders gathered on Monday for the Climate Action Summit at theUN General Assembly, it is sadly clear that the prospect of rising global temperatures and sea levels has failed to generate…

The attack on Saudi Arabia’s oil infrastructure, which targeted what one analyst called the ”Achilles heel of the world economy”, was a direct attack on the heart of the Saudi economy and the global…