

Drones have drastically altered the course of war. The bad news is that terrorists are inevitably going to take an interest in this technology. Just as inevitably, they will try to combine it with IEDs.

As the Obama administration begins the search for a new president of the World Bank, it risks repeating the same mistakes that all too often in the past have led to the wrong person being appointed.

This year there will be presidential elections or changes of heads of government in countries that together account for over half of the world economy, a process which could have an adverse effect on the quality of the decisions made by governments.

While the world’s democracies have discussed the options for bringing a stop to the slaughter in Syria, far less time has been spent identifying the options that remain for Assad himself.

The fact that the Afghanistan war is not going well is no surprise. The surprise is that, according to Lt. Col. Davis, it is going even worse.

The world’s largest developing countries who were proclaiming their success at this year’s annual conference in Davos should remember the misfortunes that befell past conferences’ most confidence attendees.

While economic inequality has always existed and is not going away, this year it is likely to top the global agenda for voters, protesters, and politicians running for office in the many important elections scheduled around the world.

Alabama’s new immigration law, which has led to inadvertent arrests of foreign business executives, risks becoming the next example of a bad government decision bred by a period of economic trouble.

In 2011, a number of conceptions about the way the world is run took a serious hit, including the idea that inequality must be accepted and that national interests should be above electoral ambition.

The candidates for the U.S. Republican presidential nomination could learn a great deal from the informed and serious campaigns of the Venezuelan opposition leaders, who are daring to stand up to Hugo Chávez.