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The brewing conflict between the United States and China is typical of zero-sum contests among countries, firms, and individuals. The US is acting under the...

British Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal she concluded with the European Union last month on the United Kingdom’s departure from the bloc, the...

In most developed countries, a retirement of leisure is one of the great socioeconomic innovations of the past century. But it is quickly becoming a luxury...

Living in a city turns you into a cannibal. That, at least, is the metaphor preferred by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who considered cities a pit of human...

The annual dolphin hunt in the Japanese town of Taiji began in September. By next March, despite global condemnation and mounting criticism from Japan’s...

The spontaneous street protests in Paris over the past month come almost exactly 50 years after the mass revolt of May 1968. But that is not to say the two...

Since the Cold War ended, the West has invested huge amounts of resources in efforts to induce political liberalization in China, including through...

Algorithms are as biased as the data they feed on. And all data are biased. Even “official” statistics cannot be assumed to stand for objective, eternal...

Forty years ago this month, China’s leaders set the country on a path of reform that has produced the most dramatic economic transformation in history....

Though he rarely admits even the slightest discontent with the job he schemed for in unprecedented ways and somewhat accidentally fell into (thanks to the...