WASHINGTON, DC — With Donald Trump and the Republican establishment refusing to accept defeat in the face of a clear election result, democracy in the United States is under unprecedented attack.

NEW YORK – Although the proper role of government in society is much debated, few would dispute that law enforcement falls within the state’s remit.

NEW YORK — What do the Calabrian organised crime syndicate ‘Ndrangheta, Hertz, China’s Sichuan Trust and the US Federal Reserve (Fed) have in common?

NEW YORK — In a recent tweet, Olivier Blanchard, a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, wondered how we can “have so much political and geopolitical uncertainty and so little economic uncertainty”.

NEW YORK — Economic inequality has moved to the top of the political agenda in many countries, including free-market poster children like the United States and the United Kingdom.

NEW YORK — Three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the United States is finally embracing public banking.

NEW YORK — The Business Roundtable, an association of the most powerful chief executive officers in the United States, announced last month that the era of shareholder primacy is over. Predictably, this lofty proclamation has met with both elation and skepticism.

Nobel laureate Amartya Sen famously suggested that famines do not occur in democracies because accountable governments will do everything they can to avoid mass starvation.The same reasoning should apply to clean drinking water; like food, it is a resource that is indispensable f