One result of gay marriages is that there might be a revival of conventional marriages.

The doctrine of imposing present pain for future benefit has a long history, stretching all the way back to 18th-century British economist Adam Smith...

While medium incomes have been stagnant for the past 30 years, the rich became richer.

As Olympic mania swept the world in recent weeks, it transported the host country, Britain, to a rare display of public exultation. Indeed, the successes...

Is China poised to become the world's next superpower? This question is increasingly asked as China's economic growth surges ahead at more than 8 percent...

Europe is now haunted by the specter of debt. All European leaders quail before it. To exorcise the demon, they are putting their economies through...

The financial crisis that started in 2007 shrunk the world economy by 6 percent in two years, doubling unemployment. Its proximate cause was predatory...

Fifty years ago, as decolonization accelerated, no one had a good word to say for imperialism. It was regarded as unambiguously bad, both by ex-imperialists...

It is often said that Russia lacks a “civil society.” But it partly makes up for this by having a rather interesting public sphere in which serious...