As China’s example shows, a country needs to invest in its future prosperity. Tariffs and tax cuts are no way to get there.

Malaysia achieved an impressive democratic victory. Just don’t expect its success to spread to the rest of Southeast Asia.

The world’s two billion-person nations continue to stick to one time zone each.

How the United States ended up with one of the highest numbers of time zones for a single country.

The world’s largest country has 11 time zones across its hemispheric span.

No longer a prime meridian country, the former empire still reigns with a dozen time zones.

Major U.S. companies cannot be happy about the effects that President Trump’s trade war with China will have on their business fortunes.

German hopes for the football tournament in Russia appear way overblown.

Cultural and natural heritage is important to all of us. But we are doing ourselves a disservice if we allow national interests to come before quality.

The demise of the current Merkel government is not the most likely outcome yet. Both CSU and CDU would have too much to lose from it.