In conducting yet another nuclear test last Friday, North Korea has escalated its confrontation with the rest of the world. The regime celebrated, saying it had made progress in miniaturizing nukes and attaching warheads to missiles. South Korea’s president rightly called it an act of “maniacal recklessness.” It’s clear, if it wasn’t already, that North Korea is no longer …

  Plastics are destroying our marine life and animals. The ever-increasing trash is polluting the seas and oceans. According to a report few months back, China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam made up 55% to 60% of the total plastic found in the world’s marine ecosystem. In Australia, the coastlines are being contaminated by plastic debris. Imagine 12.7 million …

Pundits and policymakers everywhere are bemoaning the rise of a new, inward-looking populism. Led by the likes of Donald Trump and Nigel Farage, those who’ve felt only globalization’s ill effects, not its benefits, have mounted a fierce counterattack. Border-hopping elites fret that the whole process of opening up and knitting together the world through trade, capital flows and immigration may …