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TORONTO -- AS the United States gears up for a political brawl over immigration next year, one of the concerns shaping the debate will be the fear that English-speaking Americans [...]

Last week, Russia's president, Vladimir V. Putin, said he could take Kiev in two weeks. This week, he disavowed a cease-fire, then proposed a peace plan. Now a cease-fire is [...]

KIEV, Ukraine -- OVER the past two weeks, residents of Kiev have lived through its bloodiest conflict since the Second World War, watched their reviled president flee and a new, [...]

Last year, we turned on the plutocrats. Everyone from Pope Francis to Bill de Blasio denounced them. Even Bill and Hillary Clinton, erstwhile champions of pro-business centrism and donor sleepovers [...]

WHEN Soviet communism collapsed, the West's declarations of triumph were so full of hubris that it was easy to forget what was right about them. The Ukrainians protesting in downtown [...]

When Soviet communism collapsed, the West's declarations of triumph were so full of hubris that it was easy to forget what was right about them. The Ukrainians protesting in downtown [...]

TORONTO -- HERE'S the puzzle of America today: the plutocrats have never been richer, and their economic power continues to grow, but the populists, the wilder the better, are taking […]

NEW YORK -- When the financial crisis threatened to topple the global economy, my Russian friends took great delight in calling me from Moscow and sharing the bittersweet response that [...]

NEW YORK -- If you are worried about the Western middle class -- and we all should be -- you may have started to have some doubts about the virtues [...]

EDINBURGH -- Here's one sign the global elite is starting to get worried that capitalism isn't working for the Western middle class. At the TED Global gathering in Scotland's elegant [...]

NEW YORK -- The past week has been a lesson in the perils and the apparent inevitability of overreach. The most eye-catching example has been in Turkey, where what began [...]

NEW YORK -- The past week has underscored one more way in which the lives of the super-rich are diverging from the lives of everyone else: The middle-class is becoming [...]

SAN JOSE, California -- One of the most urgent questions in economics today is the connection between inequality and growth. That is because one of the big economic facts of [...]

NEW YORK -- In recent months, people and their politicians around the world have been astonished to learn that big companies and billionaires will go to extraordinary lengths to pay [...]

NEW YORK -- It's evening in America. That is the worrying news from the latest Heartland Monitor Poll, conducted quarterly and sponsored by the insurer Allstate and National Journal. The [...]

NEW YORK -- Pity Barack Obama. Everything in his life experience prepared him to be the president who would take on the big challenge of the 21st century: rising income [...]

NEW YORK -- If you read just one book this spring to understand how the world is changing, it should be Mohsin Hamid's new novel, ''How to Get Filthy Rich [...]

NEW YORK -- The one thing pretty much all of us in the United States agree on is the importance of equal opportunity. Opinion is divided about the significance of [...]

NEW YORK -- Here's a novel way to address the problems caused by rising income inequality: give children the vote. One virtue of this iconoclastic idea, recently advanced by the [...]

MIAMI -- Louis D. Brandeis, the American jurist, famously warned: ''We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have [...]

NEW YORK -- One way to divide people is into foxes and hedgehogs. Another is into those who think this time is different and those who believe there is never [...]

WASHINGTON -- Watch out Wall Street and look sharp City of London -- one of the sheriffs of global capitalism is riding into town. An elegant Frenchwoman with a shiny [...]

SAN DIEGO -- This is a tough time for experts. Empowered by the Internet and embittered by the sour economy, many people doubt the wisdom of expert elites. Journalism sometimes [...]

NEW YORK -- For America, 2012 will go down in history as the year of the Latinos, the blacks, the women and the gays. That rainbow coalition won President Barack [...]

NEW YORK -- Among the losers in the United States this week are the super-rich, who spent unprecedented millions to evict President Barack Obama from the White House. The investing [...]

NEW YORK -- If you are looking for some good cheer in a pretty gloomy world, consider the growing consensus among some of the world's smartest money that the next [...]

IN the early 14th century, Venice was one of the richest cities in Europe. At the heart of its economy was the colleganza, a basic form of joint-stock company created [...]

NEW YORK -- One of today's major debates is how big government should be. Maybe we are asking the wrong question. Our battle over the size of the state overlooks [...]

YALTA, UKRAINE -- One of the paradoxes of our age is that we are simultaneously living through a time of positive economic innovation and also a time of the painful [...]

VIENNA -- George Soros made headlines this week with a striking proposal that to save Europe, Germany must ''lead or leave.'' The leadership part was familiar: Outside Germany, at least, [...]

NEW YORK -- If there had been an empty chair at the Democratic convention this week, its ghostly occupant would have been Ronald Reagan. Barack Obama admiringly referred to Reagan's [...]

NEW YORK -- If you aren't American, the possibility that this election could hinge on abortion rights may seem absurd. Surely the stagnant world economy, the relative decline of U.S. [...]

NEW YORK -- Forget America's fiscal cliff, Europe's currency troubles or the emerging-markets slowdown. The most important story in the global economy today may well be some good news that [...]

NEW YORK -- On a bitter evening in mid-January, a group of bankers and book publishers gathered on the 42nd floor of Goldman Sachs's global headquarters here. The setting could [...]

THE WEALTHY ELITE Intentionally or not, the World Economic Forum will focus attention on one of the most striking consequences of the technological revolution and the spread of globalization that [...]