The financial crisis has split Spain into two: a Spain that works and one that doesn’t.

China will soon be under new leadership. But the real change in China is taking place further down the generational chain.

Why are the Republicans so keen on creating their own worst nightmare?

Wall Street lost its bid to unseat President Obama. Now it should get onboard with sensible regulation and oversight.

Would American democracy be better served by shorter and less costly elections?

How did the U.S. election of 1980 and the British election a century prior lay the groundwork for each country’s decline?

Why are Americans hesitant to elect their president by a direct popular vote?

How have the ideas of Ayn Rand shaped contemporary Republican thinking on economic and political issues?

If Reagan is the father of modern U.S. conservatism, Ayn Rand is certainly its mother.

Is UBS’s exit from fixed-income trading a harbinger that other self-correcting measures will take hold in the financial industry?