British Prime Minister Keir Starmer leaves 10 Downing Street to attend Prime Minister Questions, January 7, 2026, in London. Credit: Alberto Pezzali/AP Photo The other day, the Financial Times ran a ...

Capitalism is often treated as a timeless backdrop to modern life, a system that simply emerged in Europe and then swept the globe by force of inevitability. A new global history by Harvard historian ...

The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, has given a downbeat assessment of the global economy in her curtain raiser speech for its meetings, held together with the ...

In 2014, the French economist Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century became an international sensation, reshaping the inequality debate and launching its author into superstardom.

According to John Cassidy’s century-spanning history Capitalism and Its Critics, the system lives on because of its antagonists. In 2008, on the precipice of the global financial crisis, the British ...

Welcome to Faster, Please! — The Podcast. Several times a month, host Jim Pethokoukis will feature a lively conversation with a fascinating and provocative guest about how to make the world a better ...

As a 45-year-old who just left his job, I read George Soros's assessment of the world economy with concern ("The Crisis of Global Capitalism," The World Economy, Feb. 1). Soros predicts that Thailand ...

Sudan today has become the exemplary case of how the developed West contributes to the conditions for violent conflict and mass migration in resource-rich parts of the world. Beneath the façade of ...

Elizabeth O’Brien Ingleson discusses the intersecting economic interests in China and the U.S. that transformed global trade starting in the 1970s. The great rapprochement between China and the United ...

Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870-1924) is best known for his role in the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the founding of the Soviet Union. Lenin symbolized for many people the principles and ideas of the ...

Right from his near-miraculous reelection to the White House as the 47th President of the United States of America, a possibility that appeared remote given the perceived threat he constituted to that ...