JOHANNESBURG—In this, its semiquincentennial year, let’s give America its due. By the turn of the 20th century, it was a ...

Kai Guo rejects the argument, repeated in a recent OECD report, that world-leading industries grew from state support.

Building on the success of his mega-refinery in Lagos, Nigerian industrialist Aliko Dangote is in talks to construct a second ...

Ian Buruma is the author of numerous books, including Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance, Year Zero: A History of 1945, A Tokyo Romance: A Memoir, The ...

Carl Bildt expects the Russian president to continue his self-destructive war and potentially lose Crimea in the process.

Already under US sanctions for his role in securing an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the ...

Harold James considers what historical attempts at redistribution in France can tell us about the current political moment.

Carlos Lopes urges policymakers to focus less on sectors and more on capabilities that drive long-term growth.

Gabriela Ramos & Emilija Stojmenova Duh warn that the technology calls for independent oversight, not politicians doubling as ...

Few countries better illustrate the difficult trade-off between democratic principles and strategic necessity than Turkey. As the country’s geopolitical and economic importance grows, NATO allies are ...

Despite this year's US/Israeli-Iran war causing the largest-ever disruption to global oil supplies, the shocks of the 1970s had a greater impact. Because oil has been used as a weapon for so long, ...

Iryna Volnytska thinks successful universities will be AI-native institutions focused on converting knowledge into capability ...