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So British Prime Minister Theresa May lives to fight another day. The Conservative Party in the House of Commons reaffirmed its confidence in her leadership...

The climate conference in Katowice, Poland, has been billed as the most consequential since the 2015 summit, which produced the Paris climate agreement....

It was not all that long ago – just a few years, as hard as that it is to believe – that Europe appeared to be the part of the world most closely...

An old joke among non-Americans is that they, too, deserve a vote in US presidential elections, given how central that office is to their lives. When...

In the nineteenth century, more than 70 per cent of American workers were farmers. By 2017, that figure was under 2 per cent. In 1970, about 32 per cent of...

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...