Energy costs are shooting up—and with them investors’ expectations of inflation around the world. Traders are rapidly ...
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On March 8th the denizens of Tehrangeles gathered at the University of California, Los Angeles, for a concert in advance of ...
A lack of trust in America and Israel, internal divisions and the risk of domestic strife all hamper a unified response ...
Britain once led the world in precision timekeeping; its inventions included the marine chronometer. But it never dominated the mass production of wristwatches, and by the 1970s the last large factory ...
Last week I introduced the idea of horizontal escalation: when a crisis or war spreads geographically. That has continued. America’s and Israel’s war in Iran now stretches from Cyprus in the west, ...
Edward Carr, deputy editor of “The Economist” Simon Rabinovitch, Beijing bureau chief Avantika Chilkoti, global business correspondent Rosie Blau, host of “The Intelligence” This podcast transcript is ...
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F or British ministers, a trip to northern Norway is à la mode. In February Al Carns, the armed-forces minister and former ...
Preparations ordered by the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, before his assassination on February 28th, proceeded as ...
F IFTEEN YEARS ago the state of Baden-Württemberg sent tremors across Germany by electing the country’s first—and so far only ...
On the contrary, we are trying to finish it,” Vladimir Putin had told Russians a few years earlier, after invading Ukraine.