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The Tragedy Of America's Welfare State By Tyler Drusden Exactly two years ago, some of the more politically biased progressive med...

Post-US world born in Phnom Penh By Spengler It is symptomatic of the national condition of the United States that the worst humiliati...

Constructive Ambiguity By James G. Neuger, Stephanie Bodoni and Jonathan Stearns  European finance ministers eased the terms on emerg...

Japan is on its last stretch as a major global econo my By Chan Akya A few weeks ago, my Asia Times Online colleague Spengler wrote a m...

On the Road to Zero Growth By Vince Foster It seems that big sucking sound signaling a  precipitous drop off in the demand for money  ...

Bond bubble bust by JONATHON TRUGMAN There goes the nest egg. There’s a record $16.3 trillion of US debt and a good portion of that ...

Science shows that we often allow our moral judgment to overshadow factual arguments By Alesh Houdek This month's presidential ele...

Fat Studies For Thin Minds BY CLAIRE BERLINSKI In his new book, Bruce Bawer has proposed an answer to vexing questions: Why has...

Neither Liberty Nor Security By CBS News The most historical instance of protesting against taxation without representation is now be...

Capital Formation and the Fiscal Cliff   By John Mauldin There’s a very interesting article in  The Atlantic  this week, called “ How ...

Washington is spending the country into economic decline By  PETE DU PONT Summer is almost ended, and Americans are growing more and...

Greece demands philanthropy, not investment By  LIZ ALDERMAN THE government inspectors set out from Athens for what they thought was a...

Smart austerity is economic stimulus, but not of the "borrow and print money" sort An economic policy that combines growth—s...

Les Moody Blues Moody's  stripped France of its triple-A rating last week, citing "deteriorating economic prospects," the ...

Hello, Europe By  PETE DU PONT The election is behind us, with President Obama's strong victory over Mitt Romney. Mr. Obama did no...

The EU operates in a bubble By Sebastian Moffett and Claire Davenport Workers protesting austerity on the streets of southern Europe w...

Tough times ahead for Mariano Rajoy By Fiona Ortiz and Braden Phillips Four separatist parties in Spain's Catalonia looked set to...

Τhe authorities American society listens to most on the subject of sex are Hugh Hefner and Gloria Steinem by WALTER RUSSELL MEAD Nobod...

The Late Bloomer It wasn't until 1871, with the establishment of the German Reich, that Berlin finally took its place among other Eu...

India Pursues Massive Nuclear Expansion The 2011 disaster at Japan's Fukushima plant led many countries to turn away from nuclear powe...