More than at any time since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, nuclear war may be something to worry about. At the moment, tensions between India and Pakistan, North Korea’s small arsenal, Iran’s nuclear program, and the US withdrawal from its treaty with Russia on intermediate-range nuclear missiles are all roiling the status quo of global security. But ...

The world’s finance ministers and central bank governors, gathered in Washington for meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, were assigned some grim reading this week. The IMF’s new forecasts predict a further slowing of the global expansion, and warn of serious downside risks as well. No single factor accounts for this cloud over the world’s ...

The mantra “take back control” meant different things to different Brexit voters during the June 2016 referendum. But it’s pretty certain no one thought they’d be getting what came out of European Union (EU) summit. When they finally emerged in the early hours on April 11, the EU’s leaders had agreed to push back the UK’s Brexit deadline yet again, ...