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On April 30th Eli Lilly, maker of a hit weight-loss treatment, delivered another dose of strong quarterly results. On May 2nd ...

Big movements of people have big economic consequences. According to the IMF, the foreign-born labour force in America is 9% ...

The Gaza protests have exposed three fault lines in American university governance. First, the demonstrations have destroyed an already tenuous compact governing free speech on campus. Second, they ...

Last week two planes were forced to turn around after their GPS signals were disrupted. GPS jamming has increased sharply in the Baltic region over the past two years. Who is behind it and how ...

The main tenor was whether Mexicans want a sequel to the six-year feature that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has scripted, directed and starred in. Claudia Sheinbaum, the candidate for the ...

India is a young country: around two-fifths of its 1.4bn people are under the age of 25. That makes them an important constituency in the general election, which will end on June 4th. Yet getting ...

Maine has a state treat, the whoopie pie. South Carolina has a style of dance, the shag. State reptiles abound, from the horned toad (Wyoming) to the collared lizard (Oklahoma). New Mexico even has an ...

Figures released on April 30th by California’s Department of Finance should lessen the hand-wringing. In 2023 California’s population grew by nearly 0.2%, or by about 67,000 residents (see chart).

The yen has been falling primarily because of simple economic logic. The gap in interest rates between Japan and America is ...

Since the start of the war in Gaza there have been protests at universities across America and, at many of them, arrests. Students say, sometimes rightly and sometimes wrongly, that they are ...

A change was needed because the old method of making steel is incredibly dirty. The Port Talbot plant is the single biggest emitter in Britain. Its two smokestacks account for one-fifth of Wales’s ...