Abu Dhabi / WAM On the occasion of the 45th National Day celebrations of the United Arab Emirates, the Emirates News Agency (WAM) issued a series of reports regarding the achievements of the state over the past year. In part eight, the nation’s successes in the field of women’s empowerment come under the spotlight. 2016 has seen many achievements in ...

  Richard Stengel, the State Department’s undersecretary for public diplomacy, bluntly states the problem that has been worrying him, and should worry us all: “In a global information war, how does the truth win?” The very idea that the truth won’t be triumphant would, until recently, have been heresy to Stengel, a former managing editor of Time magazine. But in ...

  As this historic November ends, the message from the financial markets seems clear: For now, the outlook for the U.S. economy appears brighter, both in absolute terms and relative to other advanced economies. Very few predicted these developments, which speak to the enormous fluidity that has taken over markets and politics and that signal the gradual end of the ...