Cold War

I love big airplanes. Passenger planes, cargo planes, bombers, blimps, really anything huge that can somehow stay aloft. That's probably why I went out of my way to tour the Spruce Goose, and why I seek out air museums that feature big, beautiful beasts of th…

If you're like me and you like big bombers and early SAC-era aircraft, Castle Air Museum is excellent. It's a bit of a hike to get to, about 2 hours from San Francisco or Sacramento, but as one of the few places in the world to see some of these…

Last week, at the Aspen Ideas Festival, I interviewed Tim Wu, a professor at Columbia Law School and author of a new book calledThe Curse of Bigness. We talked about antitrust and innovation, and he addressed arguments on the topic made by Facebook. An edited…

Image copyrightReutersImage caption Mr Sigley arrived in Beijing on Thursday When Australian student Alek Sigley went missing in North Korea last week, Canberra turned to a country more than 15,000km (9,320 miles) away for help. The Scandinavian nation of…

Mr. Trump seems to see tanks as a symbol of military strength, of Americas ability to bend the world to its will by means of brute force and threats of fire and fury. Having avoided service in the Vietnam War by way of draft deferments, Mr. Trump has presumab…

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Economist Nouriel Roubini, who earned the appellation Dr. Doom a decade ago for his predictions of a global financial crisis sparked by the bursting of the U.S. real estate bubble, is once again warning of a dire economic outlook, this time sparked by the U.S…

WARSAW (Reuters) - On a frigid morning in January, Polish internal security officers entered the Warsaw apartment of a foreign businessman, confiscated photographs, seized his electronic devices and detained him. The allegations leveled against him were sensa…

WARSAW  On a frigid morning in January, Polish internal security officers entered the Warsaw apartment of a foreign businessman, confiscated photographs, seized his electronic devices and detained him. The allegations levelled against him were sensational: An…

Chinese President Xi Jinping urged US President Donald Trump to "show flexibility" towards North Korea, including the "timely" easing of sanctions, at the G20 summit last week, China's foreign minister said Tuesday. Xi visited North Korea prior to meeting Tr…