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 ...

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

Before the pandemic, work-from-home rates had been rising steadily. On those trends, covid pulled its adoption forward by several decades. Now it has settled into a new groove—one that is more ...

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 ...

One of the most effective television ads last year during Donald Trump’s campaign for president warned voters: “Kamala is for they/them, not you.” Less than two weeks after taking office in ...

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 ...

AI may be young and fast-moving, but so is Dwarkesh Patel. The 24-year-old rose from nowhere to become Silicon Valley’s favourite podcaster—attracting guests such as Mark Zuckerberg and Satya ...