Economics

Americans’ willingness to work with each other and to learn from one another is becoming ever more deficient. I have a confession to make: In the age before automated spelling error corrections, I inadvertently used to mistype the words “United States” quite regularly. I accidentally ended up typing …

Republican presidential candidates often warn that America is declining, and that only they can stop its demise. Former President Donald Trump believes that the national decline halted during his term in office and will stop again when he is reelected. But five unmistakable signs of American decline have …

Harun Karcic Kazakh leaders support an increased American and European role in Central Asia to help promote the region’s security and economic development without undermining Astana’s multi-vector foreign policy approach. Kazakhstan has officially begun construction of its third railway connection with China. The double-track railway is expected to …

Emily Milliken Despite the U.S. naval base in the country, Djibouti’s support for Palestine will likely protect them from Houthi attacks. The world is left wondering how the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen will respond to a series of devastating strikes on the group’s military assets. On January …

Paul Saunders If the United States is to maintain its international leadership in the coming years, it will have to define, explain, and execute a new vision for leadership that can secure long-term domestic support while recruiting committed allies, partners, and others to work toward shared goals. On …

Chris Stein The Florida governor and Republican presidential candidate, Ron DeSantis, listens to a voter’s question during a rally on Tuesday, in Greenville, South Carolina. Photograph: Jeffrey Collins/AP Minutes after his second-place finish in the Iowa caucuses was confirmed, Ron DeSantis came onstage in a hotel ballroom to …

David N. Bossie Former President Donald Trump cruised to victory in the Iowa caucuses on Monday, marking the so-called first big test of the 2024 primary season for Republican presidential candidates — but in the end, it was really no test at all for Mr. Trump , the …

The idea of global free trade as an end in itself is obsolete in a multipolar world of several great powers and shifting coalitions, in which today’s friendly trading partner may be tomorrow’s enemy determined to cut off essential supplies. THE RISE of China as a great power …

The staggering rise in the value of Bitcoin and all other cryptocurrencies reflects the sharp demise in public support for the governments of the world’s leading economies and the global financial system that they control. At the start of 2023, the Bitcoin price-per-unit was around $17,000. By the …