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The U.S. presidential pardon power is evolving before our very eyes — and not in a good way. First outgoing President Joe Biden pardoned...
Almost from the moment he was sworn in as Bank of Japan governor, Kazuo Ueda sounded like a guy who wanted to be done with negativity. It just...
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer stood for election on a platform of fixing the country’s ailing National Health Service, a taxpayer-funded...
Around the beginning of each year, I customarily write a column about how we’ve just had the "best year ever” in the long history of humanity....
As American TikTok users rejoice at the site’s return from its 14-hour hiatus, curmudgeonly critics — me included — wonder whether President...
Natural ecosystems can be restored and prosper, and bustling cities can be powered entirely by clean energy. Sound utopian? In a rapidly...
The United States has yet to come up with a viable strategy to deal with multipolarity in international relations. How will this affect its...
Indonesia is the latest country in danger of being tagged with the "Japanification" label. Not for a battle with deflation or sluggish growth, and...
This year has seen a heightening of the semiconductor wars between the U.S. and China, stoking superpower tensions and raising visions of a global...
At 82, I have lived through countless political and social upheavals, enough to become somewhat inured to history’s recurring cycles. But recent...
Democracy, it is often heard these days, is in crisis. The election of Donald Trump and news of political turmoil in many other democracies have...
As Donald Trump commences his second term as U.S. president, it’s a good time to assess the United States’ standing and position in the...
Who could deny that Joe Biden has been one of America’s most consequential presidents? His signature achievement, after all, was to get Donald...
One of the more jaw-dropping policy ideas gaining political steam in the United States recently has President-elect Donald Trump and his team, on...
President-elect Donald Trump still wants to buy Greenland, having previously likened it to a giant real estate deal. If so, he seems to have...
Donald Trump will return as the 47th president of the United States on Jan. 20. Much of the global media is concerned about the transactional...
During the U.S. presidential campaign, President-elect Donald Trump generally took a tough line toward China. Yet at the same time, he often...
"WE HAVE A DEAL,” U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on his social media channel Truth Social, as Israel and the Hamas terrorist organization...