The prime minister is neatly repositioning Britain alongside the world’s rising power, just as the US did 40 years ago.

Plus: Bloomberg, Kissinger and me; Hillary Clinton’s Peronist path to power.

It was not until seven years after the construction of the Berlin Wall that Kissinger acquired the power that had eluded him under John F Kennedy, when the man Kennedy had defeated for the presidency — Richard Nixon — won the 1968 election and hired Kissinger as his national security adviser.

The past week has shown us that the world economy is dominated more than ever by the symbiotic relationship of China and America.

The right response is for the centrists to join forces, hard though it is to bury their ancestral rivalries, writes Niall Ferguson.

Has political hierarchy in the form of the state met its match in today’s networked world?

European populism is more like the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party than Boston’s, writes Niall Ferguson.

Never mind the Fed's taper, it's the U.S. geopolitical taper that is stirring world anxiety. From Ukraine to Syria to the Pacific, a hands-off foreign policy invites more trouble.

More than two million jobs have been created in Mexico since early 2010. Illegal immigration to the U.S. may soon be history.