In the twentieth century, the American dream of a middle-class life inspired the world. Now, in the twenty-first, we are moving at high speed toward a world based on a new geography of growth...

The incredibly tedious Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando is at it again, this time harrying the government to press on with the enactment of its cohabitation law...

This time around, President Barack Obama’s message can sound decidedly down-to-earth. Four years after winning the White House, Obama is dealing with a different economic and political reality as he seeks re-election...

What is the big story of our age? It depends on the day, but if we count by centuries, then surely humanity’s urbanisation is a strong contender...

One of the world’s biggest green energy public policy experiments is coming to a bitter end in Germany, with important lessons for policymakers elsewhere...

Those who know very well that the PN’s problems are ingrained within its own parliamentary group rather than within its own party structures are fully aware that next Saturday’s leadership vote at the PN’s Dar Ċentrali will not change anything...

Forty years ago, in February 1972, US President Richard M. Nixon journeyed to China...

The tourism plan 2012-2016 was launched for public consultation two months into 2012 when it should be obvious for all that the process should have started at the beginning of last year...

I shared my Valentine’s lunch with Franco Debono last Tuesday.No, let me rephrase that: I was lunching somewhere with someone when in walked Franco Debono with his girlfriend....

The fresh fuss about the decision of a Maltese-run Catholic organisation in Ethiopia, not to liaise on any more adoptions by single ‘people’, is pointlessly complicated....