Opinion

Wednesday 13/July/2016 19:08 PM

What’s the problem with protectionism?

One thing is now certain about the upcoming presidential election in the United States: the next president will not be a committed free trader. The...

Wednesday 13/July/2016 16:02 PM

Why women are winning at the politics game

Now that two of the world's five biggest economies -- Germany and the UK -- are headed by women, and the biggest one of all, the US, has a woman...

Wednesday 13/July/2016 15:40 PM

How the megarich soak Brazil

When Alex Cuadros arrived in Brazil as a young reporter in 2010, there was much to marvel. Here was Latin America's biggest underachieving nation...

Tuesday 12/July/2016 16:15 PM

The abdication of the Left

As the world reels from the Brexit shock, it is dawning on economists and policymakers that they severely underestimated the political fragility of the...

Tuesday 12/July/2016 16:01 PM

Clinton's tuition plan gets a B-Minus

The reaction to Hillary Clinton's new, more generous college affordability plan has mostly followed partisan lines. Liberals see it as "Bernie...

Tuesday 12/July/2016 15:42 PM

Dallas: Crime scenes and weapons of war

Given the horror of the murder of the five police officers in Dallas last Thursday, it may seem absurd or distasteful to ask whether it was a good idea to...

Tuesday 12/July/2016 15:23 PM

China's control freaks are becoming a drag

Inke is a Chinese startup that enables users to stream live video. It’s doing pretty well -- in April, mobile analytics firm App Annie said it was the...