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Abe’s stimulus plan needs wise approach

  Japan has taken a bold step and Abenomics is once again at play. But will it yield the desired results? This is a pertinent question which has no easy answer. On Wednesday, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced a 28-trillion yen ($266 billion) economic stimulus package ahead of the crucial Bank of Japan (BoJ) meeting. BoJ is also expected to ...

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Democrats aren’t making their strongest case

  Ramesh Ponnuru Bill Clinton took on a daunting task on the Democratic convention’s second night: convincing Americans who have been watching his wife for a quarter-century that their picture of her is mistaken, that she is not the candidate of the status quo but “the best darn change-maker” he has ever known. He told us about Hillary Clinton’s parents ...

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Coup bid clears way for Turkish-Russian rapprochement

  The news in late June that Russia and Turkey were making noticeable moves toward repairing relations damaged last year when a Russian jet was shot down by Turks along the border with Syria was overshadowed by a terrorist attack at the Istanbul airport on June 28. Unrelated as the two events were, the news cycle quickly spun away from ...

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