Niall Ferguson

How rising inequality and social stagnation are reshaping us for the worse.

How long will the GOP stay in denial?

Will the president wag the dog in Tehran?

Which strategy will prevail on the electoral battlefield?

Laughing Uncle Joe's secret.

Populism takes an ominous turn.

It’s not just the Middle East. China’s on the march.

The president fiddles as the world burns.

If the economy is so bad, why is Barack winning?

While the GOP met in Tampa, titans of finance flew to Wyoming.

Higher education is becoming the new caste system.

The president has broken his promises, and Romney-Ryan's path to prosperity is our only hope.

India’s massive blackout is just the beginning.

I wish I were a technoptimist.

Adam Smith knew what ails us—and he prescribed the cure.

In the latest bank scandal, London’s loss is Asia’s gain.

What Israel knows, and doesn’t know, will change the world.

It’s not America’s job to intervene in Syria.

Spain has accepted a big bank bailout, but the Eurostorm isn't ending anytime soon—and it may come to American shores just in time for the election.

Wall Street deserves to win its battle with the White House.

With Europe on the brink, the U.K. faces its own crises.

Will the continent act to avert an economic cataclysm?

A continent primed for economic takeoff.

Kissinger returns to Harvard—and America turns a corner.

How else to explain the delirium of the Obama boosters?

A brutal attack turns a French election.

Beijing purges one of its own—the Cultural Revolution isn’t over.

He wants intervention in Syria and Somalia. Will he get his way?

In the West’s high-stakes nuclear game with Tehran, Ahmadinejad may hold the stronger hand.

Venture capitalist Peter Thiel has made a fortune as an investor. Why is he so worried about the future?