Policymakers face complex cost-benefit considerations when intervening in the market to mitigate perceived risks, from climate change to competition with China.

New U.S. sanctions are in some ways more restrictive than Cold-War era controls.

While multiple reports indicate that China has committed major abuses of the Uighur minority group, determining the most serious charges is difficult.

President Erdogan’s recent troubles with the United States have prevented Turkey from playing a potentially constructive role in the early phases of the Israel-Hamas war.