Opinion

President Barack Obama's proposal few days ago for a $10-a-barrel tax on oil, which has been overwhelmingly rejected by Republicans, could make it...

Europe is facing a convergence of the worst crises since World War II, and the overwhelming consensus among officials and experts here is that the US no...

Wasil Ahmad, an Afghan boy, just 10 years of age, was killed by the Taliban last week. Wasil’s uncle Samad was the commander of a 70-strong militia group,...

At a summit in California, US President Barack Obama is set to meet with the leaders of the ten countries of Asia’s most important regional grouping: the...

With banks taking a leading role in financing new government projects, business ventures on the anvil must reflect on the financial realities to serve the...

It is time to put the rise of the emerging economies in perspective. The rapid economic growth in much of the developing world since the beginning of the...

The liberal international order that has helped stabilize the world since the end of the Cold War is under strain. A revanchist Russia, chaos in the Middle...

It has long been said that we know more about the Moon than we do about the oceans. After all, 12 people have walked on the surface of the Moon, but only...

The outbreak of the Zika virus, like Ebola before it, has highlighted the risk that infectious diseases can pose to the health of entire countries – and...

One of the big unanswered questions in the finance world is: Do returns reflect risk or mispricing? Defenders of the efficient markets hypothesis say that...