JOHANNESBURG—In this, its semiquincentennial year, let’s give America its due. By the turn of the 20th century, it was a ...

Kai Guo rejects the argument, repeated in a recent OECD report, that world-leading industries grew from state support.

Carl Bildt expects the Russian president to continue his self-destructive war and potentially lose Crimea in the process.

Already under US sanctions for his role in securing an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the ...

Building on the success of his mega-refinery in Lagos, Nigerian industrialist Aliko Dangote is in talks to construct a second ...

Harold James considers what historical attempts at redistribution in France can tell us about the current political moment.

Ian Buruma is the author of numerous books, including Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance, Year Zero: A History of 1945, A Tokyo Romance: A Memoir, The ...