Add the much smaller health-care operation and the three heirs are worth $600bn, five times GE ’s value before the split was ...

E ver since turning communist, China has set top-down targets for its economy. Mao Zedong wanted to double steel output in a ...

America continued negotiating with Iran until 36 hours before the strike, with further talks planned. Before the war in June, ...

A survey conducted in 1977 by researchers at Temple University found that 42% of four-year universities still mandated a swim test for graduation. In 1997 researchers at North Carolina State ...

Should AI labs unquestioningly obey the Pentagon? Donald Trump’s administration seems to think so. Last week it banned ...

The lopsided encounter embodies the American and Israeli campaign as a whole. At the political level, American officials have offered dubious and sometimes contradictory rationales for war, as well as ...

Over thousands of years of domestication, humans have moulded fruit to their liking. Today’s peaches are 16 times the size of their ancient ancestors. The 1,200 varieties of watermelon bear little ...

Ken Paxton, Texas’s populist attorney-general, and John Cornyn, the four-term incumbent, advanced to a run-off on May 26th to ...

D URING THE American Gilded Age of the late 19th century, economic booms and busts followed each other so regularly that they ...

Mr Trump’s approval ratings have plummeted in recent months. Issues that once buoyed him—such as the economy and ...

A MERICANS HAVE been arguing about immigration since the country’s founding. In his first message to Congress as president in ...

After America and Israel struck at the heart of the mullahs’ regime on February 28th, killing its supreme leader, what remains of the regime is desperate. And both aspects of the nightmare scenario ...