The first step came on April 30th when Mr Hegseth issued a memo to the army. The force had two simple priorities, he wrote: ...

In 2014 Robin Greenwood and Andrei Shleifer, both of Harvard University, found that investors did not expect higher returns ...

Ms Badenoch is part of the problem. She is, if anything, simply too interesting for government. For a public tired of ...

The morning of May 6th was meant to be a routine final stage in the choreography of the handover of power to Friedrich Merz ...

For this conclave these kingmakers are said to include Timothy Dolan, the conservative archbishop of New York; Jean-Claude ...

Five years later, the data show that the setback to living standards could endure. Rich countries, unsurprisingly, do best.

But papal betting has a long history. Roman banking houses were taking bets as far back as 1503. Alessandro Damasceni Peretti ...

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Israel’s cabinet changed course on Gaza in dramatic fashion. It decided to “expand” military operations in the strip again ...

By using terms like “child mutilation” and campaigning hard on a painful issue for those parents and children directly ...

New ideas are being tested to counter fibre-optic drones. Both sides are constructing nets over key roads and positions, but ...

Kenneth Rogoff is a professor at Harvard University and the author of “Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider’s View of Seven ...