To succeed, the process will require new leadership and sustained external pressure, writes the peace-deal veteran ...

The war has been a calamity. Close to 70,000 Palestinians have lost their lives. The Gaza Strip is flattened. Almost 500 ...

The irony of the world’s fiscal mess is that economic conditions are benign. No major economy is in a recession. Public debts ...

Fixing the welfare state looks electorally impossible ...

The appeal is obvious. Immigration mechanically boosts GDP, spreading existing debt over more people. In the near term, ...

That leaves three unpalatable options: tax rises, default and inflation. The most likely is inflation—a danger looming over ...

Yet in the 21st century the Rhineland and Scandinavian economies have paired consensus-oriented politics with low debts, ...

Britain never repaid some of its great war debts to America. America itself passed a law in 1933 voiding the rights of ...

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In Western embassies and businesses in Beijing, China’s explanations inspire a mixture of alarm and incredulity. Given that ...

O NE REASON economists have a poor record of predicting fiscal crises is that there is no defined level at which debt can be said to be too high. They prefer to assess whether a debt-to- GDP ratio is ...

Editor’s note: All 20 of the living hostages were released by Hamas on October 13th, just as Donald Trump arrived in Israel.