The northern summer of 2021 has brought a series of record-breaking natural disasters. The list – which includes intense flooding

The climate crisis will wipe out millions of jobs long before the feared robots do. It is estimated that heat

My political awakening coincided with the systemic changes that unfolded following the collapse of communism in Hungary in 1989. I

Owing to the pandemic and other calamities, many referred to 2020 as a “biblical year.” Now, however, it is starting

In August, the International Monetary Fund announced, to much fanfare, that its members had reached a historic agreement to issue

As this year’s brutal summer showed, it has become increasingly easy to track the consequences of climate change. Just as

Twenty years ago, the September 11 terrorist attacks shocked the world. “We are all American” became a global slogan of

This week marks the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States. On that day,

The American-led global war on terror, launched 20 years ago after the September 11, 2001, attacks against the United States,

The upsurge of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths in the United States serves as a bitter reminder that the pandemic

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, were a horrific shock. Images of trapped victims leaping from the Twin Towers

On February 20, 1947, Clement Attlee, the socialist British prime minister, informed parliament that India would become independent no later

It is one year since the international community gave its backing to the COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access (COVAX) facility to

US President Joe Biden’s speech defending the withdrawal from Afghanistan announced a decisive break with a tradition of foreign-policy idealism

Once, on a flight out of Albuquerque, I was reading a glossy magazine article criticizing gross national product when I

This year includes big anniversaries in the history of the international monetary order. August 15 marked 50 years since US

The world is only starting to grapple with how profound the artificial-intelligence revolution will be. AI technologies will create waves

With the United States’ disastrous exit from Afghanistan, the parallels between the 2020s and the 1970s just keep growing. Has

I have been warning for several months that the current mix of persistently loose monetary, credit, and fiscal policies will

Listening to Australian pundits talk about the relationship of their country with the US – at least from a strategic