U.S. President Barack Obama’s impending trip to Japan for the G7 summit looks likely to be overshadowed by his planned visit to Hiroshima, a first for a sitting U.S. president. There has been extensive debate both among scholars and in the public arena about the justification for the use of nuclear weapons against Japan. This debate mirrors debates that were ...

  Given its crucial role as an investment gateway to mainland China, Beijing is striving to appease a sullen Hong Kong during the visit of high ranking Chinese official, Zhang Dejiang, who chairs China’s communist-controlled legislature. The world’s second largest economy is set to strike a compromise between the strategic position of Hong Kong as an investment hub on one ...

  Have some money you want to donate, with the goal of bringing about political change? Whatever you do, don’t give it to Hillary Clinton. Or Donald Trump. It isn’t that there’s anything particularly wrong with either candidate. It’s that money donated to presidential general-election candidates is mostly wasted. This is the lesson the Koch brothers have apparently learned. In ...