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While the Middle East is consumed by an orgy of destruction that has devastated ancient cities like Aleppo and Tikrit, Asia, led by China, is building out the infrastru...

If reading the next sentence about the bewildering tangle of so many bloody crossed swords in the Middle East makes your head hurt, just be thankful you live somewhere ...

This week, Singapore’s founding father, Lee Kuan Yew, died at 91. Though the last remaining of the great figures of post-WWII decolonization, Lee was also the first g...

Though the founding father of a tiny country on the tip of the Malay peninsula, Lee Kuan Yew was one of the giants of the arriving Asian century. Not only did he miracu...

Whether in Russia, Venezuela or Israel, the ugly politics of polarization may work in winning elections — but it always ends badly. Netanyahu’s scaremongering again...

BEIJING — In Western media, the National People’s Congress — China’s legislative body which just ended its annual three week session — is perfunctorily conjoi...

TOKYO — Looking out onto Tokyo’s towering neon cityscape, it is difficult to imagine the utter devastation of Japan’s capital 70 years ago this week in one of the...

This week, The WorldPost conference on “The Future of Work” took place at Lancaster House in London. Discussion around the theme “prepare to be disrupted” range...

Though nothing is finally settled, Europe this week breathed a sigh of relief. Greece’s Syriza-led government backed down in its confrontation with its EU partners ov...

HOLLYWOOD — The Federalist Papers may be out, but “Captain America” is in. China’s top education authorities have recently launched a campaign to curb the teach...

Near the end of the Cold War 30 years ago, Régis Debray, the French philosopher and pal of Che Guevara, predicted that the Third World was “bidding its farewell to a...

The whole idea of European integration was to anchor Germany in Europe to avoid another world war and to spread prosperity across the continent with a single market and...

The savagery of the Islamic State taunted the world once again this week, striking out at both geopolitically toothless Japan and the tribal kingdom of Jordan. Islamic ...

The WorldPost Future Series is a set of conferences that will explore the social and economic transformation fostered by rapid technological advance — and how these t...

No sooner did the global elites leave their annual talking shop high in the Alps at Davos last week than the people spoke in Greece. In a mutiny against an untenable st...
