High levels of trust demarcate the difference between advanced and wealthy economies like America's and poor and nascent markets like those of the former Soviet bloc.

Choice in Middle Eastern politics ranges from the bad to the worse, and Egypt is no exception.

Evidence indicates that the dominant sensibilities of humanities and social science professorsare a combination of social democracy and support for domestic government intervention.

Women are joining men as partners in running the world, but they are not replacing men and never will. Yes, women are flourishing in unprecedented and gratifying ways. But men have hardly vanished from the center.

Amity Shlaes of Bloomberg News and the Council on Foreign Relations delivered the April Bradley Lecture.

The campaigns for the presidential election of 2008 have begun, and they already reflect an old political challenge. Whether Democrat or Republican, candidates must address the same dilemma: on the one hand, voters have enormous...

While there was plenty of empathy with Egyptians, there were no mass protests. Instead, Russian disquiet has assumed other, less hopeful forms.

Diets remain a largely anecdotal science, working for a few people but not for many, and there is no shortage of fads.

As Washington waits for President Obama’s plan on how to revive the economy and pull us out of our 9 percent unemployment rut, a growing chorus on the left is calling for us to go to war—or at least the economic equivalent of war.