Historically, the term "fair trade" has meant many things. The Fair Trade League was founded in Britain in 1881 to restrict imports from foreign countries.
The world might expect that the American people – the stewards of the world's only superpower, – would be far more engaged on foreign-policy questions.
Political pundits agree that presidential approval ratings are highly correlated with gas prices: when prices go up, a president's poll ratings go down.
Cities matter, as they always have, but now more of the world is starting to take notice of their problems and possibilities.
Efforts to stem global warming have nurtured a strong urge worldwide to deploy renewable energy.
There is no shortage of talk nowadays about Europe's deficits and the need to correct them. Critics point to governments' gaping budget deficits.
While globalization occasionally raises difficult questions about the legitimacy of its redistributive effects, we should not respond automatically by restricting trade.
The problem of America's role in the 21st century is not one of "decline," but rather of developing the contextual intelligence to understand that even the largest country cannot achieve what it wants without others' help.
If everything goes right for China, it will surpass the United States as the world's largest economy, in current dollar terms (and more quickly in real terms), by 2021.
Europe is slipping back into recession just when recovery in the United States is finally getting some traction.
On March 11, a year will have passed since Japan was struck by the triple tragedy of an earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear accident.
Lin's success is delicious, partly because it contradicts so many cultural prejudices about Asian-American athletes.