The biggest U.S. business organization has fallen out with influential parts of Corporate America because of its trenchant opposition to climate-change legislation making its way through Congress.

Farming, which many city folk once associated primarily with children's books and distinctive if not entirely flattering tan lines, is suddenly in vogue.

It's as provocative an argument as an economist can make: China is stealing jobs. Paul Krugman did it on Oct. 22, raising blood-pressure levels around Beijing.

Tokyo and Washington are struggling to keep a feud over a U.S. military base from spoiling President Barack Obama's visit next month, but assuaging mutual anxiety as both allies adapt to China's growing clout will be an even harder task.

China's busy climate change diplomacy has become increasingly feverish weeks before crucial talks that could forge a new pact to fight global warming, or end in rancor that could rebound onto the world's biggest emitter.

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.

Vice President Joe Biden's trip last week to Poland and the Czech Republic may have helped soothe rattled allies after Team Obama pitched overboard the W-era, anti-Iran missile shield that was to be deployed in both countries.

The international climate negotiations that have been grinding on for years may have crossed a Rubicon of sorts. That's because a new model of engagement for some nations is receiving wide attention.

U.S. and Chinese officials meet in Hangzhou this week at the annual Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade, a few weeks before U.S. President Barack Obama makes his first official trip to China.