The U.S. strategy towards the Middle East since the Arab Spring has been defined by proactive disengagement and hesitance.

For more than a century, the U.S. economy grew robustly thanks to big inventions; those days are gone.

Political bungling at home and abroad is appalling. When his record is etched, Obama will go down as the worst, most damaging president, in American history until, perhaps, the next one.

The Social Progress Index looks beyond GDP and makes social and environmental measurement integral to national performance measurement.

Among major advanced economies, growth in the U.S. rebounded ahead of expectations.

The U.S., by far, is the greatest military spender ($640 billion) in the world. Rounding out the top five are China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and France.

Among the 34 OECD countries, the United States performed below average in mathematics in 2012 and is ranked 27th. Performance in reading and science are both close to the OECD average.

A rising share of international migrants now lives in today's high-income countries such as the United States and Germany, while a growing share was born in today's middle-income nations such as India and Mexico.