It called the attempt to crash the plane “a terrorist act”. American and Saudi media identified the co-pilot as an Omani ...

In 2007 Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote an essay entitled “Politics is the Mind-Killer”, arguing it was inimical to logic. Recently ...

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The latest data revives doubts over how much more tightening America’s economy can take. It also leaves the Fed balancing ...

F RANCE’S MESSY politics are spooking the bond markets. On September 29th the yield on ten-year bonds rose to 4.8%, its ...

Donald Trump won it by 30 points in 2024. So some Republican strategists are puzzled by his decision to hold a rally there 33 ...

Leaders of the G7, a club of rich democracies, agreed to release 100m barrels of crude oil and diesel to combat the global ...

Global bond markets recovered some of their losses after a sharp sell-off on Thursday sent borrowing costs soaring. A small ...

India’s government has ordered 112 coal-fired power plants—owned by Tata Steel, Reliance and other industrial giants to ...

Japan will gain sweeping new powers to fight cyber attacks on Thursday, when its “active cyber defence law” comes into force.

Add to that grim tally one more. On September 30th the state of Tennessee administered two supposedly lethal doses of ...

So it has proved with effective altruism (EA), an ethical doctrine cooked up by philosophers in Oxford that has gone from the ivory tower to the corridors of power with remarkable speed. Effective ...