Opinion

Here’s some excellent news on inequality: Measured from birth, the gap in life expectancy between rich and poor in the US has been rapidly narrowing. It...

Oman has not been able to create enough employment because the number of new businesses launched every year has been declining significantly in recent...

The road to medical understanding is pitted with confounding news headlines. Take one last week warning that women exposed to too much of the ubiquitous...

American socialism is not for the impatient. From the early 19th century on, a parade of reformers, unionists, utopians, anarchists, syndicalists,...

“Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be any use to him.” These...

Who could have thought that the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) might be one of the winners of the aftermath of the Panama leaks? Given the way in which the...

Even amid the chaos and catastrophes caused by war, there are internationally recognised limits on combatants’ behaviour. And yet recent deliberate...

India’s ruling Hindu-nationalist party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has reasons to smile with its foray into the country’s north-east state of...