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Last November, senior military leaders in the United States took the unusual measure of briefing the president on “a severe and widespread electronic attack on Defense Department computers.” According to …

  Earlier today, about a mile from where I write, Hamid Karzai gave his inauguration speech at the Afghan presidential palace in Kabul’s heavily fortified “Green Zone.” Present were representatives …

Two-thousand and eight was not the best of years for capitalist culture. The world financial system took a substantial hit starting in October, there is widespread fear that this will …

December 2008 was dominated by shoes and footprints. At an anti-government protest in the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik, Sirry Hjaltested said that her grocery bills had gone up by half …

The double whammy of the subprime market crisis followed by the deepening financial crisis has seen a remarkable change in fortunes among the vanguard of economic power. Recall British Prime …

With the Crash of ‘08 ushering in the 2009 worldwide slump, it is clear that the economic crisis will hit richer countries more than others. According to the Organization for …

President George W. Bush wanted to make history — he will. The bad news for the president is that he will certainly not be remembered the way he would have …

Many years ago, an Indian friend of mine living in Dubai said to me, “If you want to send a plane to anywhere in the world, including the North Pole, …

Change in the White House looms as Washington’s political class senses that the old adversary Iran is more open to pressure. There is a tempting parallel with the collapse of …

The Middle East as a region has a ‘brand image’ problem. War, terrorism and — in the words of a soon-to-be- departing US president — evil, are terms that still …