Barry Eichengreen compares the US currency's global trajectory to that of the Roman denarius under Emperor Nero.

WASHINGTON—One month of war in Iran has added nearly $4.4 billion to Africa’s annual debt burden, enough to build a gigawatt ...

Economic performance in the United States has proved unexpectedly resilient in recent years, withstanding even Donald Trump’s ...

Timothy Snyder worries that the US president could exploit a terrorist act, or engineer one, to rig the midterm elections.

Attiya Waris sees the 17th General Review of Quotas as a test of whether the multilateral lender can transform itself.

Ian Bremmer notes that the country is faring better than most from the economic shock emanating from the Gulf.

Whereas US power in the 20th century rested heavily on manufacturing scale, military reach, and dollar strength, in the 21st century it may rest increasingly on ownership of indispensable AI ...

Jim O'Neill suspects that Donald Trump’s Middle East misadventure will shift the regional balance of power eastward.

Stephen Holmes warns that the system Viktor Orbán has created means that losing an election may not mean relinquishing power.

Attiya Waris, Professor of Fiscal Law and Policy at the University of Nairobi and a senior scholar at the Georgetown Center ...

Wha thinks the technology’s impact will be determined less by frontier innovation than by diffusion and adoption.