Europe's debt crisis has piqued Europeans' interest in American precedents for federal finance. For many, Alexander Hamilton has become a contemporary hero.
While Obama should continue to apologize for the Koran burnings, we must understand that Afghans' rage is a response to an even deeper, rawer wound.
The driving force of Europe's economic policy is the "European project" of political integration.
One of our era's foundational myths is that globalization has condemned the nation-state to irrelevance.
Would the world be more peaceful if women were in charge? A challenging new book by the Harvard University psychologist Steven Pinker says that the answer is "yes."
At last, European leaders have revealed their top-secret plan for solving the euro's crisis.
A systematic and broad failure of regulation is the elephant in the room when it comes to reforming today's Western capitalism.
Indeed, the only certainty may be that Iran's nuclear program will be a major international issue in 2012 – quite possibly the most important one.
The world economy is entering a new phase, in which achieving global cooperation will become increasingly difficult.
European political leaders may be about to agree to a fiscal plan which, if implemented, could push Europe into a major depression.
In the 2008 US presidential election, the press told us that Obama won because he had "charisma" – the special power to inspire fascination and loyalty.
Dressing up failure as victory has been integral to climate-change negotiations since they started 20 years ago. The latest round of talks in Durban, South Africa, in December was no exception.