Democratic inequality
By Raghuram Rajan CHICAGO: Why did the household savings rate in the United States plummet before the Great Recession? Two of my colleagues at the University of Chicago, Marianne Bertrand and…
The Arab Spring: good or bad for the Palestinian cause?
By Dawoud Abu Lebdeh JERUSALEM: It’s been over a year since the start of a wave of revolutions that brought down the rulers of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen, one after…
Climate-Smart Smallholders
By Paul Kagame and Kanayo F. Nwanze KIGALI: Until the world’s small farmers adopt a series of necessary changes, climate talks such as the United Nations Rio+20 Summit, which will take…
Army gains ground on anniversary of Syria uprising
By Crispian Balmer and Dominic Evans / Reuters BEIRUT: Syria marked the first anniversary on Thursday of an increasingly bloody uprising against President Bashar Al-Assad, with recent army gains unlikely to…
Ousted leader undermining Al-Qaeda fight, say Yemenis
By Ahmed Al-Haj and Aya Batrawy / AP SANAA: It was a stunning attack by Al-Qaeda in a country that is one of the world's hottest fronts against the terror…
Worries over Iranian Jews if Israel attacks
By Amy Teibel / AP JERUSALEM: All but lost amid the heated talk about a possible Israeli attack on Iran's suspect nuclear program are the thousands of Jews who live in…
Rights group condemns ‘ship of shame’ carrying weapons to Egypt
By Reem Abdellatif CAIRO: Amnesty International condemned on Thursday a "ship of shame" carrying a cargo of weapons with explosives from the United States en route to Egypt. The group called…
70s music revisited in varied SXSW documentaries
By Jake Coyle / AP Whether reggae, soft rock, hardcore punk or power pop, the music of the 70s is playing again at South By Southwest. Several of the many music…
Sarah Curran on finding the niche in online fashion retail
By Heba Elkayal As the power and reach of fashion extends to consumers beyond the pages of monthly magazines by way of the internet and social media websites, fashion today can…
Egypt’s Suez Canal sees record revenue since new toll
By Reem Abdellatif CAIRO: Egypt's Suez Canal posted a single day revenue of LE 117 million ($19.4 million) on Wednesday, according to head of the canal authority. These were the highest…