As South Africa is buffeted by criticism from President Donald Trump and other American conservatives—some of it unfair and ...

If the picture appears bleak for America’s graduates, it is bleaker still for Uncle Sam. Student lending was once profitable ...

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O N JULY 1ST, after 27 hours of non-stop voting and debate, America’s Senate passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB), ...

In some ways it is surprising that China, a forceful surveillance state, did not roll out digital ID s earlier. Dozens of ...

On June 19th Ethan Klein, an American YouTuber and podcaster (pictured), sued three streamers who had broadcast lengthy ...

Yet the race for a handful of superstar software engineers masks a slump for everyone else. As Chat GPT -like generative AI ...

In response, Xi Jinping, China’s ruler, introduced a policy called “supply-side structural reform”. Its original aim was to ...

All that does presume that Mr Mamdani’s stores are run as well as a conventional supermarket or bodega. But from affordable ...

Scott Bessent, Mr Trump’s treasury secretary, attempted to set the record straight. In an interview with Tucker Carlson, a right-wing podcaster, released on April 4th, Mr Bessent said that only ...

Nor should founders be fetishised: people derive meaning and create value from all sorts of work. But some entrepreneurial ...