The past few years have seen a heated debate amongU.S.politicians and analysts about whetherthe United Statesshould "decouple" fromChinaby severing the supply chains, trade relationships, and…

Among the many sobering projections of harm to be caused by climate change is this eye-popping statistic: on average, according to economists, a rise in local temperature of half a degree Celsius is…

A World Trade Organization panel ruled Tuesday the Trump administration violated international trade rules by trying to stop China's blatant violations of international trade rules. The ruling…

The Trump administration’s bid to trigger snapback sanctions through the UN has thrown into sharp relief the already grim economic predicament gripping Tehran. Senior officials are publicly…

Opponents of economic globalization often point to the ways it has widened inequality within nations in recent decades. Inthe United States, for instance, wages have remained fairly stagnant since…

In recent years, academics and policymakers inthe United Stateshave struggled with an economic mystery. Why, even as theU.S.economy has grown in the past few decades, have wages remained relatively…

On Thursday, Secretary Pompeo formally initiated the mechanism known as “snapback sanctions,” a feature of the 2015 JCPOA and its sister UN resolution, UNSCR 2231, in a bid to reimpose UN sanctions…

In the 1960s, French Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing complained that the dominance of theU.S.dollar gavethe United Statesan "exorbitant privilege" to borrow cheaply from the rest of the…

Extreme wildfires savagedNorthern Californiain 2018, leaving the homeless to camp out in a Home Depot parking lot inOakland, not far from the billionaire hub ofSilicon Valley. Hurricane Irma…

The Arcticis so remote, so cut off from the rest of the world, that at times it appears to defy the normal rules of politics. Relations betweenthe United StatesandRussia, for example, have been…