Asia
Boiling Caucasus
While Americans aren’t paying attention, their enemies are on the prowl in this energy-rich region.
Winning Over Down Under
It will take a united front to defeat Beijing’s new version of diplomacy by economic coercion.
Tireless in Baku
She’s been harassed and arrested, spending in one case a year and a half in prison. American Purpose’s Sophia Vahanvaty speaks with investigative corruption reporter Khadija Ismayilova.
In Praise of Industrial Policy
My friend Steve Rhoads, emeritus professor at the University of Virginia, will be publishing through Cambridge University Press a 35th anniversary edition of his 1984 book The Economist's View of the World. The book reviews and explains many of the fundamental concepts of modern neo-classical economics, like opportunity costs, marginalism,
Droning On in the Middle East
Back in the early 2010s when I first started playing with drones, I speculated in the FT that if I could own a drone, anyone could, and that this would have big implications for global politics. At that time, drone technology was largely controlled by the U.S. and Israel,
Asia’s Wake-Up Call
U.S. democracy, standing but battered, can still use its experience to support fellow democrats in Asia.
Remembering Tet
A reporter who was in Saigon recalls the day on January 30, 1968, when the South Vietnamese capital came under attack.
