The Lehman Brothers bankruptcy in the fall of 2008 threw a sharp and critical light on the inadequacies of the world's system for resolving insolvent, globally active financial institutions; a debtor-selection system could ameliorate many of these inadequacies.

A flawed selection process for the new managing director of the IMF will produce a director whose legitimacy will be in question from day one.

The leadership of the ISI is changing hands at a critical time for both the U.S. and Pakistan.

What would the world look like with more boys than girls? Join us for what promises to be an enlightening--and sobering--discussion.

The Nobel Peace Prize is the world’s most prestigious award, as Jay Nordlinger argues in this erudite and insightful history. He has written not only the go-to reference book for the prize and its laureates but also an important philosophical reflection on the nature of “peace” in modern times.

For all the talk about the Affordable Care Act's mandate to purchase insurance, you might think that the mandate is the linchpin of the entire law. It isn't, at least from the standpoint of whether the insurance market will collapse without it. 

The following presentation lays out steps that can be taken in order to help property appraising return to its status as a profession and to its core function: assisting lenders in determining the maximum amount that may be prudently lent on a property.  

February and March were bad months for the Western presence in Afghanistan. First the accidental burning of the Quran and then a lone soldier’s massacre of Afghan civilians undercut U.S. efforts to win Afghan hearts and minds.