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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...

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...