The global financial crisis has shattered conventional wisdom about global governance.

She's back! In fact, Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor who became a sassy sudden superstar when she ran for the U.S. vice-presidency last year, is on a whole new campaign.

The world may not end two years from now, despite Internet predictions and this week's blockbuster disaster movie, “2012.”

The decision to hold a G-20 finance ministers meeting on the Scottish coast in the middle of winter was an “interesting idea.” When we arrived at St. Andrews there was all the November weather we could want; rain and wind a plenty.

Health activists Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF, Doctors Without Borders) claimed last week that the global recession threatens AIDS funding, putting millions of lives in Africa at risk.

In his November 1 article entitled “Bashing of Human Rights Watch unfair,” Scott MacLeod wrongly accused Robert L. Bernstein of unfairly bashing Human Rights Watch (HRW), the organization Bernstein himself founded.

It's a rum world when your definition of “getting better” is “not getting any worse.” That though is the cheering view of many CEOs from the world's top airlines.

Despite all the Obama administration's chin- rubbing and hand- wringing about how to proceed in Afghanistan, the president hasn't been to the war-torn country since entering the White House.

The arguments over whether President Obama is worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize look like escapism from the real conflicts the United States faces.

Nowadays, no one is fit to comment on economics unless you are a Nobel Laureate. The only Asian so far to gain a Nobel Laureate in economics is Amartya Sen, but he resides in Cambridge.