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Success at the Doha Round of world trade talks would be a major step towards reducing poverty in developing countries. Looking back over the last four decades and focusing on East Asia and China, where trade has been instrumental in surmounting poverty, it is obvious that trade, not aid, is...

Critics accuse the Trump administration of making ill-advised or contradictory decisions about crises in the Middle East involving countries from Qatar to Israel as well as non-state actors such as the Islamic State. Louis René Beres, professor of international law, argues that such difficulties...

Researchers have revised methods for measuring ocean surface temperatures, with the help of reliable measurement buoys. Thus, revisions in the historical data are in order. Because oceans cover three fifths of the planet, researchers’ estimates were low, and climate warming and melting of polar ice...