Hurricane Harvey has left in its wake upended lives and enormous property damage, estimated by some at $150-180 billion.

Although America’s right-wing plutocrats may disagree about how to rank the country’s major problems — for example, inequality, slow growth, low productivity, opioid addiction, poor schools and deteriorating infrastructure — the solution is always the same: lower taxes and deregu

Under President Donald Trump’s leadership, the United States took another major step towards establishing itself as a rogue state on June 1, when it withdrew from the Paris climate agreement.For years, Trump has indulged the strange conspiracy theory that, as he put it in 2012, “

Donald Trump has thrown a hand grenade into the global economic architecture that was so painstakingly constructed in the years after the end of World War II.The attempted destruction of this rules-based system of global governance — now manifested in Trump’s withdrawal of the Un

In barely a month, US President Donald Trump has managed to spread chaos and uncertainty — and a degree of fear that would make any terrorist proud — at a dizzying pace.Not surprisingly, citizens and leaders in business, civil society and government are struggling to respond appr

Every January, I try to craft a forecast for the coming year.

As I have travelled around the world in recent weeks, I was repeatedly asked two questions: Is it conceivable that Donald Trump could win the US presidency?

For 200 years, there have been two schools of thought about what determines the distribution of income — and how the economy functions.One, emanating from Adam Smith and 19th-century liberal economists, focuses on competitive markets.

Something interesting has emerged in voting patterns on both sides of the Atlantic: Young people are voting in ways that are markedly different from their elders.A great divide appears to have opened up, based not so much on income, education or gender as on the voters’ generatio