John Quiggin suggests that the uprising in Egypt is another data point suggesting the decline of the U.S.: There was another round of the m...

Man, the world is moving fast right now: Myanmar’s ruling generals will preside Monday over the first meeting of Parliament in more than tw...

Richard Baldwin says the Doha round of WTO negotiations will succeed this year: The paralysis of the last two years was primarily due to th...

I'm very interested in reading this paper after it has been written: In the case of Egypt, there's also an argument to be made that...

A couple things on power. First, Joseph Nye makes the case for European power in an excerpt from his new book: The closest thing to an equa...

You can watch the revolution, live and in progress, here . Marc Lynch is blogging it . I agree with Joshua Tucker that Twitter is the best ...

I have been trying to make sense of the FCIC report released yesterday. I am apparently the only person who finds both the majori...

I've been pondering this from Yglesias for a few hours: Think of a world in which there are two kinds of growth. One is leap-ahead grow...

State of the Union tonight. The administration seems to have concluded that we are engaged in a global fight for jobs: " the world has...

There's been some interesting discussion of the similarities and differences between the French and American economies. Krugman touched ...