Yesterday’s post noted that the 1916 Black Tom explosion raises a great “what if” question: would Woodrow Wilson have lost his bid for re-election that fall if Americans had known that German saboteu…

As China turns the page from its reform era, the Chinese Communist Party's official discourse increasingly references the country's imperial past. 

The 2024 U.S. presidential election could be the first election clearly decided by women, in a landmark assertion of power by the majority.

Jean Tirole was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences today “for his analysis of market power and regulation”. It shouldn’t come as a surprise, then, that he’s written a lot about ene…

Ten people who passed away this year who shaped world affairs for better or worse.

The war in Ukraine grinds on with no end in sight.

An exhibition space commemorating the June 4, 1989, massacre of protesters in Beijing and other Chinese cities opened Friday in New York, highlighting how recent changes in China have rejuvenated its…