In the face of shrinking populations, many of the world's major economies are trying to engineer higher birth rates. Policymakers from South Korea, Japan and Italy, for example, have all adopted ...

Significant problems are confronting the Xi Jinping regime as the third plenum of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party meets this week to discuss the direction of the economy. The ...

Daniel Markey, a former State Department specialist on South Asia, says Pakistan “is going through another series of really tough times” brought on by the economic downturn that has hit the country, ...

For Americans, these are tumultuous times. Inequality in income and wealth is at historically high levels. Climate change is accelerating, with the number of billion-dollar weather disasters in the ...

Zachary Karabell is an author and investor and writes “The Edgy Optimist” on Substack. The “affordability crisis” has become the economic touchstone of the day — widely touted, frequently debated and ...