Some policymakers and pundits have argued that currency manipulation–the effort to keep exports cheap by intervening in the foreign exchange market–is the most important issue international economic policy could address. Friday evening, the Senate rejected an amendment by Sens. Rob Portman (R., Ohio) and Debbie Stabenow (D., Mich.) that would have punished currency manipulators. The White House has responded to pressure from Congress, signaling a willingness to bring exchange-rate provisions into trade negotiations, but does not want binding sanctions against currency manipulators to be part of the Pacific trade agreement under consideration. Currency manipulation is not like pornography–you don’t know it when you think you see it. It’s hard to define and even…

The Obama administration seeks a bright side for the environment after allowing oil drilling off the coast of Alaska. President Barack Obama’s administration is taking plenty of heat from environmentalists after opening the Arctic to oil drilling by Shell. But the administration’s polar policy has a less noticed, if potentially very important, flip side: It’s using its leadership of the Arctic Council to launch an offensive to curb emissions of short-lived climate pollutants that pose a particular threat to the melting ice at the top of the world. Since Obama opened Alaska’s Chukchi Sea to drilling this summer by Shell, greens have excoriated the…

Rien ne va plus entre les sunnites et les chiites. Du Liban au Bahreïn en passant par la Syrie ou l'Irak, les deux communautés s'illustrent par leur antagonisme. Le Yémen vient s'ajouter à la liste, théâtre apparent d'une guerre par procuration entre l'Arabie saoudite et l'Iran. Le Moyen-Orient est-il destiné à s'embraser autour de guerres confessionnelles ? Après Jihad made in USA, nous retrouvons Mohamed Hassan pour analyser les événements…

لأول مرة منذ تاريخ نكبة فلسطين في العام 48 يصل عدد الفلسطينيين في فلسطين الإنتدابية المحتلة عاميْ 1948 و1967 إلى أكثر منه في الخارج، فقد وصل عدد الفلسطينيين في العالم حتى منتصف شهر أيار/2015 وحسب الجهاز المركزي للإحصاء الفلسطيني في رام الله إلى 12.349.150 فلسطيني موزعين في الضفة الغربية (2.880.745 فلسطيني بنسبة 23.32%)، وقطاع غزة (1.788.049 فلسطيني بنسبة 14.47% )، وفلسطين الـ 48 (1.546.353 فلسطيني بنسبة 12.52%) ليصل العدد الإجمالي للفلسطينيين الداخل إلى 6.215.147 فلسطيني بنسبة 50.31%، ويتوزع باقي الفلسطينيون في العالم إلى الأردن (3.722.833 فلسطيني بنسبة 30.14%)، ولبنان (507.988 فلسطيني بنسبة 4.11%)، وسوريا (566.560 فلسطيني بنسبة 4.58%)، وباقي الدول…

On Monday, President Obama made it clear that he thinks it was wrong for the U.S. Supreme Court to agree to hear the King v. Burwell case. He spoke at a news conference at the Group of Seven (G-7) summit of leading industrial nations in Germany, and this was one of the first times he has openly discussed his feelings about the case. “This should be an easy case, frankly it shouldn’t have even been taken up.” Although a win for the plaintiffs would cause a lot of new challenges concerning the healthcare law, Obama insists that it is “well documented” that…