The rise of the new global super-rich

Chrystia Freeland So here’s the most important economic fact of our time. We are living in an age of surging income inequality, particularly between those at the very top and everyone else. This shift is the most striking in the U.S. and in the U.K., but it’s a global phenomenon. It’s happening in communist China, in formerly communist Russia, it’s happening in India, [...]

The western model is broken

The west has lost the power to shape the world in its own image – as recent events, from Ukraine to Iraq, make all too clear. So why does it still preach the pernicious myth that every society must evolve along western lines? “So far, the 21st century has been a rotten one for the [...]