After the gold price hit $4,380 an ounce, a record, on October 20th, it fell by more than 10%—only to recover some of its ...

A provisional decision is expected within days. In early October Mr Trump ordered about 700 National Guard members—300 from ...

So please take my prediction for next year in this spirit. It is not really even a prediction, more a provocation. If your ...

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Universal free child care is a popular policy on the American left these days. Zohran Mamdani, New York’s Democratic ...

C HINA APPEARS “increasingly cool,” declared Jin Lian, a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry, earlier this year. To ...

Taiwan’s vast surpluses have been years in the making. For decades its central bank, known as the cbc, has kept the currency ...

Jobseekers can now produce a perfectly targeted cover letter, touching on all an advertisement’s stated requirements, at the ...

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Peer into The Economist’s decision-making processes with Tom Standage, our deputy editor, who explains how we select and ...

For years quantum technology seemed exciting in theory but not much good in practice. Now the ability to combine qubits—bits ...

The question for Democrats, who will now probably lose Mr Golden’s seat in 2026, is whether their leaders are still sensible ...