America’s vice-president, J.D. Vance landed in Delhi as part of an American campaign to push other countries to isolate China ...

A survey of 16,000 university graduates in 40 countries by Nicholas Bloom of Stanford University and colleagues, shared with ...

The pope was, in any case, no great admirer of the United States, or of unbridled capitalism. As a Latin American—an ...

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Productivity fell from 81% of the American level in 2000 to 68% in 2023. In the same period, Canadian investment per worker tumbled from 60% of America’s to 41%. Lagging productivity has cascade ...

Immigration lawyers contacted by The Economist say they have had lots of inquiries. Plenty of people will pay good money to ...

Peter Thiel is obsessed with atoms. The prescient venture capitalist has said that the Manhattan Project, which created the ...

T HE BALD MAN has not moved for more than three years. She arrived to take on a cargo of sunflower oil on the day before ...

This imitation of Japan’s exchange-rate policy has seen many other countries’ central banks amass “war chests” of dollar ...

For much of the Western world, the two-day weekend is sacrosanct. In China, the right to rest for two days each week is not a given. Many students say goodbye to the concept when they start high ...

Though each crisis is driven by different, home-grown causes, “the question of who controls the Red Sea and who will ...

It has also shocked many observers in a country whose constitution guarantees the free expression and distribution of ...