How is Trump’s Brazil-bashing putting America first?
On July 17th the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, dispatched a memorandum to America’s diplomats stepping back from…
Board should avoid appearance of conflict | Opinion
I’m an “old soldier,” a retired Army officer. In the military, the “appearance of impropriety” refers to actions…
How is Trump putting America first by bashing Brazil?
On July 17th the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, dispatched a memorandum to America’s diplomats stepping back from…
Why 24/7 trading is a bad idea
Stock exchanges are the quaintest corners of modern finance. At other financial institutions, the typical trading floor features…
Germany’s “memory culture” prevents it from coping with Gaza
TO walk around Berlin is to experience something no other capital city offers: a physical landscape that forces…
Does exercise really improve mental health?
How, where, why you work out may be more important than the amount of exercise you get Research…
The sleeping policeman at the heart of Europe
For a continent with a masochistic penchant for regulation, Europe is oddly not very good at crafting it.…
India’s Licence Raj offers America important lessons
Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister, and Donald Trump, America’s president, do not share many similarities. Nehru was…
How strongmen mastered the art of dividing Europe
It takes weeks of haggling by ministers and their diplomatic underlings to craft what the leaders of the…
How to make prediction markets more useful
If you could invent something to fulfill an economist’s dream, it would look an awful lot like a…