The United States never held a large number of direct colonies, a fact that has prompted many political leaders to declare it the great exception to colonialism.
The politics of trade will always contrive to decide the most fateful questions in private while leaving public debate to chew over narrow, derivative issues.
When we last visited New York Times foreign affairs pundit Thomas Friedman during last year's Seattle protests, he was attacking critics of the antidemocratic World Trade Organization as a
The turn of the millennium provided yet another occasion to celebrate a triumphant American Century.
A massive natural disaster reminds us why people worldwide have been engaged by the issue of debt relief.
Ajit Singh, who graduated from Punjab University and obtained his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, is professor of economics at Cambridge University.
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The financial crisis that collapsed Asian economies in mid-1997 and then bounced around the world was a distant sideshow to most Americans until it reached Wall Street.